It also speaks to the right-wing's continuing distrust of anything that remotely approaches scientific discovery or mathematical calculation.
The fact that this country's elections are actually based on an empirical system at all is apparently a happy accident - if Republicans had their way, we'd just go by a good old-fashioned show of hands. "That's the way my grandpappy did it, and they didn't have any silly recounts!"
Their lack of any connection to reality is stunning, huh?