This couldn't be related to Rubio's sudden surge, could it ?

Nah ... I've just been told there's nothing to see here and to move along.

One of Marco Rubio’s Biggest Financial Backers to Tally Iowa Caucuses
by Julia Hahn31 Jan 20163,431

Microsoft Corp. will be providing the technology to count the votes of Iowa caucus-goers, according to a new report.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’s campaign is raising concerns about the corporation’s potential conflict of interest in tallying the votes.

As The Hill reports:

" Microsoft volunteered to provide the technology to help tally up the results of Iowa’s caucus, free of charge… The contests in both parties are expected to go down to the wire… Pete D’Alessandro, who runs the Sanders operation in Iowa, last week questioned the tech giant’s motivations… Other aides to Sanders noted that Microsoft employees have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clinton campaign, according to MSNBC. “You’d have to ask yourself why they’d want to give something like that away for free,” D’Alessandro said."

The Sanders campaign’s suggestion that Microsoft may have financial interests at stake in the outcome of the race is true for both parties.

As conservative columnist Michelle Malkin pointed out last month, “Microsoft, founded by leading H-1B/amnesty cheerleader Bill Gates, has been [Marco] Rubio’s No. 2 corporate donor the past five years.”

As Breitbart News has previously reported, according to Open Secrets, Microsoft is the second largest contributor to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s campaign committee since 2011, donating $33,100.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a member of Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbying firm FWD.us and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a co-chair of the immigration lobbying firm the Partnership for a New American Economy—along with Fox News’s founder Rupert Murdoch.

Both immigration lobbying firms have endorsed and lobbied for Marco Rubio’s 2015 immigration expansion bill—known as the Immigration Innovation Act, or I-Sqaured—which would have tripled the issuances of low-wage H-1B guest worker visas.

According to USCIS data analyzed by ComputerWorld’s Patrick Thibodeau, Microsoft is the 12th biggest user of the H-1B program—having brought in 1,048 foreign workers on H-1Bs in 2013.

Microsoft’s reliance upon imported foreign labor comes at a time of large-scale layoffs for the corporation. In 2014, Microsoft announced its plans to lay off 18,000 workers at the same time the company was lobbying to increase the H-1B program, prompting strong condemnation from U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a top opponent of Marco Rubio’s H-1B expansion plan.

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Although it has not received much attention from the establishment media, the H-1B issue has played a critical role in the 2016 election.

In Florida, scores of Marco Rubio’s own constituents were laid off by Disney and were forced to train their low-wage foreign replacements brought in on H-1B visas. The American tech workers launched a discrimination lawsuit against Disney earlier this week.

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According to Open Secrets, the Walt Disney Corporation has been one of Rubio’s biggest financial boosters in the 2016 election— having donated more than $2 million. Disney CEO Bob Iger also co-chairs the Partnership For A New American Economy along with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, which has backed Rubio’s 2015 H-1B expansion bill.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)has similarly been subject to intense criticism for his position on the H-1B issue. Cruz has previously expressed his support for expanding the H-1B program– and even introduced an amendment to the 2013 Rubio-Schumer bill that would have resulted in a 500% increase of the H-1B program. ...........................................................................

In stark contrast to Rubio’s position, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who is self-funding his campaign, has taken a firm position against H-1B “job theft.” Trump has told Breitbart News that Rubio ought to “immediately rescind his sponsorship of the I-Squared bill and apologize to every Floridian for endorsing it… [as well as] return the money he [Rubio] has received from Silicon Valley CEOs and to donate the money to a charity helping unemployed Americans whose jobs Rubio has helped to destroy.

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...-iowa-caucuses/

FYI - Rubio is another not NBC. He was born on US soil to two non citizen parents.

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FYI - Rubio is another not NBC. He was born on US soil to two non citizen parents.

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Yep.

I honestly have no idea what I am going to do if either Cruz or Rubio wins the nomination. NO IDEA. How in the world do I vote for someone I know isn't eligible? If I vote for the unconstitutional ineligible candidate its treason, if I vote for the Marxist, its treason. Lord help me.

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Another interesting development:

Trump Says He’ll Probably Sue Over Iowa Results, Accuses Cruz Of “Voter Fraud”

Donald Trump says he will probably sue over the results of the Iowa caucuses, accusing Ted Cruz of committing voter fraud to win.

In an interview on Boston Herald Radio on Wednesday, Trump criticized the Cruz campaign for spreading a CNN report saying Ben Carson would not travel to New Hampshire and South Carolina after the Iowa caucuses, suggesting Carson was getting out of the race. Cruz apologized to Carson on Tuesday for his campaign not sending out updates that Carson was doing laundry and not dropping out

“One of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. They said he was quitting the race and to vote for him,” said Trump.

Asked if he would sue, Trump said, “I probably will, what he did is unthinkable. He said the man has left the race and he said it during the caucus. And then when the clarification was put out by Ben Carson saying it’s untrue, they got the statement and they didn’t put it out.”

“They apologized after the caucus was over, how does that help?” added Trump.

Trump, echoing accusations he made earlier on Wednesday in a series of tweets, called Cruz’s action “total voter fraud.”

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Trump also attacked Cruz for sending out a controversial mailer claiming voters had committed a “voter violation” by not voting.

“I think everybody is, he did another thing which was almost as bad. He put a voter violation certificate. I don’t know if you got to see that and it looked just like it was sent by a government. It talked about you’re in violation. It says voter violation up top on very official looking stationary. The way you clear it up is go and vote for Cruz. The whole thing is incredible.”

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/...cruz#.mklqvxWx7