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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It's over: Murphy actually gained 274 votes, West 34 [View all]Stevepol
(4,234 posts)11. I'm glad to see West go BUT
there's no way to know that either candidate won when the vote is counted in secret without a hand-counted audit to verify the result.
In FL it is ILLEGAL to count votes by hand if they have already been counted by an electronic voting machine for God's sake.
I agree with BradBlog. There shd have been a HAND COUNT of ALL the ballots. I feel pretty sure that it would have confirmed the result. I suspect that Murphy would have won be an even larger margin than he did with the purely machine count that is all that is allowed in FL. If West had won, more power to him. He would have been the one chosen by real people in an honest election.
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Putting school teachers and members of the military in the same group with welfare recipients?
merrily
Nov 2012
#77
That is just about what I said the poster was doing; and I already expressed my thoughts
merrily
Nov 2012
#89
I realize what West is, including his hypocrisy. I also realize the nature of government money (our
merrily
Nov 2012
#90
That's what I call good news. Now I want to listen to his concession speech.
Auntie Bush
Nov 2012
#10
Geese, and I guarantee you that he has guns. Maybe even military grade weapons.
AnnieK401
Nov 2012
#48