The "caucus" has always been a different sort of animal in the American political system, and for the second time in the 2012 race for the White House, we have seen vote counting troubles from a caucus state.
First it was Iowa, where the caucus night winner was ultimately judged not to be the winner, a result that was declared final despite the disappearance of ballots in some precincts.
This weekend the troubles were in Nevada, where the vote counting stretched from Saturday night into Monday morning Eastern Time, as it took Republican officials forever to count just a little over 30,000 raw votes.
While there was no real evidence of any voter fraud, the delays sparked an outcry from Ron Paul supporters and raised general questions about how it could be so difficult to count so few votes.
"Imagine the chaos if this Nevada race was a nailbiter," one of my listeners wrote me.
"Are they using Butterfly ballots or what?" another wondered with a dig back at Florida in 2000.
"Just awaiting counts from Clark County!" read an optimistic tweet from the Nevada GOP late on Saturday night.
24 hours later, we were still waiting on vote counts from Clark County, as by the time the Super Bowl ended, there were still 200 precincts left from Clark County, which is home to Las Vegas, the largest county in the state.
At one point the Twitter feed for the raw vote count from Nevada made clear that no new numbers would be issued anytime soon:
"Good night machines. Beep boop beep beep boop," the message read.
The delay also drew scorn from political experts like Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
"Reno 911 cops still counting NV caucus votes," Sabato tweeted sarcastically on Sunday night well after the Super Bowl ended, saying the vote tally should be finished "sometime in 2013."
In fairness - Nevada Republicans did a good job making their numbers quickly available on Twitter.
But that didn't really matter when it took so long to get the vote totals out.
Local news reports out of Las Vegas said the delays stemmed from precincts that had more votes than people who attended the caucus - but officials denied there was any ballot box stuffing.
Ron Paul supporters were very vocal on the internet about the delay, arguing it was an effort to make sure their candidate did not do well in the final results.
"If @RonPaul was in last place, they would have had results last night!" one tweeted after the Super Bowl had ended.
"The #NVGOP must release all caucus results immediately, or be complicit in the escalating suspicion of fraud," said another Paul backer.
The delay in the vote count obscured what may have been the real story from Nevada, which was the lower turnout when compared to four years ago.
We have seen that before this past week in Florida, raising questions about just how excited GOP voters really are about their choices for November.
Back in 2008, Mitt Romney won over 51% of the vote - so he wasn't that far off of that in 2012.
But his raw vote total was much less - 22,649 in 2008 and just over 15,000 by late on Sunday night.
