When you are a conspiracy theorist backing a candidate who has made a career pushing conspiracy theories, it is no wonder that you look for conspiracies in every occurrence.

And how you refuse to accept the simplest explanation for a human error.

Jennifer Call's eyes searched the office for nothing in particular. Her arms waved and her fear spilled out.

"This is where I grew up," Sutton's town clerk said yesterday. "This is my hometown, this is where my family is, and all of sudden, my name is being splashed across the internet as this horrible person. And the frightening part is, I don't know these people and they don't know me."

Call wants the nationwide army of boisterous Ron Paul supporters, believers in more conspiracy theories than Oliver Stone, to know that she's committed no crime.

Not treason, as the dozens of phone callers screamed. Not fraud, as the dozens of e-mails charged. Nothing.

Human error, by someone unknown, caused Call's office to claim Paul received zero votes from the town during Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary.

Paul actually got a whopping 31 votes.

Out of 920 cast.

Launch an investigation. Alert the media.

The mistake was corrected early the next morning, but that hardly mattered. The Paul machine, upon reading the number in print, quickly went into counteroffensive mode.

Now by my count, the error went uncorrected for perhaps 12 to 14 hours. The mistake was corrected before the day was out. Why then – other than the significant level of mental illness among Ron Paul supporters – is there this effort to drive one small town clerk out of her home, and to imprison or execute her.

Oh, and by the way, it is clear that these Ron Paul supporters do not hold to their idol's views of the Constitution as limiting government. After all, there is no way that even an intentional miscount of 31 votes – which this was not – could constitute treason under the definition set forth in Article III of the Constitution.

H/T Malkin