Republican Alan Keyes' campaign is complaining about the way votes for its candidate were handled Thursday night.

"I personally traveled with Alan Keyes across Iowa, and we met scores of Keyes voters. It's totally unfair these citizens' votes are now being withheld from the public," said Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt in a Keyes campaign press release. "This is tantamount to election fraud."

"This resembles a 'communist-style' approach to electoral politics," Stephen Stone, chairman of Keyes' campaign said in the release. "In the former Soviet Union, political officials limited voters' choices in a way that created merely the illusion of democracy, without the reality. Any undue interference with free and open elections, of the sort we think we just witnessed, is un-American."

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