Vote count fraud has been rampant in Romney’s “victories”.

DETROIT, Michigan (PNN) - February 28, 2012 - Despite a series of gaffes, megacorporation executives’ favorite candidate, Mitt Romney, narrowly won the presidential primary in his native Michigan on Tuesday, edging out rival Rick Santorum.

With 70% of precincts reporting, Romney had 42% of the vote, followed by Santorum with 37%.

However, these vote counts are not verified by paper ballot counting and Romney’s “victories” have been fraught with allegations of vote count fraud.

Romney also picked up another “victory” in Arizona’s winner-takes-all primary, taking all 29 of the delegates there.

Santorum quickly shot up in the polls after winning the caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a nonbinding Missouri primary. He had focused his resources on Michigan in hopes of winning an upset victory against Romney.

Romney, who is in the pocket of corporate executives around the world, lashed out at Santorum’s “dirty tricks” in Michigan’s open primary - even though Romney is arguably the dirtiest presidential candidate in a very long time.

“The hardest thing about predicting what’s going to happen today is whether Senator Santorum’s effort to call Democrat households and tell them to come out and vote against Mitt Romney is going to be successful or not,” Romney said in a morning press conference.

Santorum defended the move as standard electoral politics, saying he was targeting conservative Democrats to show he would have broad appeal in a match-up against illegitimate President Barack Obama.