Editing Ron Paul (section)

====Alleged irregularities====
In June, a group of 132 supporters of Paul, demanding the freedom as delegates to the upcoming Republican Party National Convention to cast votes for Paul, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the [[Republican National Committee]] and 55 state and territorial Republican party organizations for allegedly coercing delegates to choose [[Mitt Romney]] as the party's presidential nominee.<ref name=NJsuit>{{cite news |last=Roth |first=Caroline |title=RNC Faces Suit from Paul Backers |url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/rnc-faces-suit-from-paul-backers-20120619 |access-date=June 19, 2012 |newspaper=National Journal |date=June 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619210645/http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/rnc-faces-suit-from-paul-backers-20120619 |archive-date=June 19, 2012}}</ref> The suit alleged that there had been "a systematic campaign of [[election fraud]] at state conventions", employing rigging of voting machines, ballot stuffing, and falsification of ballot totals. The suit further pointed to incidents at state conventions, including acts of violence and changes in procedural rules, allegedly intended to deny participation of Paul supporters in the party decision-making and to prevent votes from being cast for Paul. An attorney representing the complainants said that Paul campaign advisor [[Doug Wead]] had voiced support for the legal action.<ref name="NJsuit"/> Paul himself told [[CNN]] that although the lawsuit was not a part of his campaign's strategy and that he had not been advising his supporters to sue, he was not going to tell his supporters not to sue, if they had a legitimate argument. He said, "If they're not following the rules, you have a right to stand up for the rules. I think for the most part these winning caucuses that we've been involved in we have followed the rules. And the other side has at times not followed the rules."<ref name=CNNsuit>{{cite news |title=Ron Paul interview with Wolf Blitzer |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/19/sitroom.01.html |access-date=June 19, 2012 |newspaper=CNN (The Situation Room) |date=June 19, 2012}}</ref>