Such a rational response, don’t you think? Ron Paul supporters began swarming the office of the town clerk of Sutton, NH, following the primary, after her office incorrectly reported the number of votes their Messiah received. The clerk reported, accidentally, that Paul received no votes. In fact, he received a whopping 31. Out of over 900. The mistake was corrected the next day, but it was too late.

Call was met by town officials the next morning at 9:30. They told her the mistake had been rectified. Call, her jacket still on, was confused.

“What are you talking about?” she asked.

She was told someone had come in and said he’d voted for Paul. The voter noticed the “0″ in the local newspaper and wanted an explanation. When he got it, he left, satisfied.

Call phoned the Secretary of State’s office and re-faxed the form, the one with a circled “31″ next to Paul’s name. Just to make sure.

Then it hit, like one of those snowstorms last month. Call got a call from someone named Bob. No last name. She remembers the man identifying himself as a reporter for the Associated Press, looking for the story on voter fraud.

So, Call got more details and called “Bob” back. She got a fax machine. So, she called the AP, only to be told their reporters would’ve given their last name. Bob wasn’t an AP reporter, but most likely a Ronulan.

Others in the office received calls and e-mails. But Call was the name out front, the town clerk as well as the tax collector. She was labeled the brains behind the plot. She had the biggest target on her back.

The assault picked up after lunch. Paul supporters phoning Call claimed to be from the media. Others just yelled, saying she had committed treason, fraud. One person said she should be shot. She received as many as 40 calls that day.

“One person said he was on a nationally syndicated radio station,” Call said, “and he has given out my phone number and they need to call the town of Sutton to find out why there’s voter fraud.”

The voices came from everywhere. California. Ohio. Florida. Michigan. Very few were from New Hampshire.

A man from Texas e-mailed that he was “contacting, by certified mail, the Attorney General of New Hampshire . . . and requesting a complete investigation and prosecution of any and all parties involved.”

A police dispatcher in New London said yesterday she’d received inquiries about the clerk’s office phone.

Call got a handful of calls that night at home, refusing to pick up whenever an out-of-state number appeared on her screen.

She got about five more the next day in her office. She tried to get work done. She called the Massachusetts company that makes the licenses for dog owners in her area. The guy had heard of her.

“Wow,” the man said. “This is the second time this week I’ve seen your name.”

“Where?” Call asked.

“I’ve gotten a dozen e-mails about how you’ve destroyed the New Hampshire primary.”

“Why?”

“We make voting machines.”

How smart are these supporters? The town of Sutton doesn’t even use voting machines.

It apparently got so bad that she went home, locked her doors, called her mother, and cried. But it kept going. She unplugged her answering machine and requested an unlisted number. She was called a traitor and a criminal. Despite her correction, she was harassed.

All because her office made a small mistake, which it openly and willingly corrected immediately.

You stay classy, Ronulans.