FL county certified election without completing counting..245 missing!

[madfloridian]

Needless to say we are very proud of our Democratic contender here for speaking out so forcefully. You go, Rob MacKenna. Rob is a Dean Dozen.
http://www.rob2004.com/

http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGBVTP089ZD.html
TAMPA -" Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson has maintained that vote-counting delays during the Aug. 31 primary were unfortunate but that results were accurate.
Not quite. It turns out 245 votes weren't counted from one of three touch-screen machines set up for early voting at Westgate Regional Library."

SNIP..."The sharpest criticism of the Republican Johnson came from the Democrat seeking his job, Rob MacKenna, who noted the found votes were announced 17 days after the primary.

``Buddy's excuse was he'd rather have it accurately rather than quickly. Well, we didn't get either,'' MacKenna said. ``In the real world, this is stuff you get fired over.''

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/18/Hillsborough/245_Hillsborough_prim.shtml
245 Hillsborough primary votes go uncounted
An elections worker leaves a touch screen machine in "test" mode at an early voting site. No races are affected.
By JEFF TESTERMAN, Times Staff Writer
Published September 18, 2004

TAMPA -" Nearly 250 votes cast at a Hillsborough County early voting site before the Aug. 31 primary were never counted, a mistake that was discovered Friday, 17 days after the election.

The votes went untabulated, said Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson, because a veteran elections worker mistakenly left a touch screen voting machine in the "test" mode, causing its votes to be recorded but preventing them from being added to the final election results."

SNIP..."This is not the first problem with the primary election for Johnson, a restaurateur and former state legislator appointed to the elections job last year. After the polls closed Aug. 31, Johnson's computer servers mysteriously slowed to a snail's pace, and the vote was not totally counted until 5:10 a.m. the day after the election.

After a diagnosis by Sequoia Voting Systems, the vendor that sold Hillsborough its $12-million package of touch screen voting machines, Johnson announced that a computer indexing system had malfunctioned, causing the server to repeatedly search through its entire data base before recording any single vote......"

And Dean Dozen candidate for elections supervisor, Rob MacKenna weighs in :
"In a statement released Friday night, MacKenna said Johnson should be held accountable for the error. "Of all the duties of the Supervisor of Elections, certifying an election without counting every vote is among the worst possible mistakes," he said...."

[Bushfire]

1. Did Rob MacKenna sit out the primary?

Good for him for speaking out, but it doesn't say if he was the only Dem candidate for his office.

[madfloridian]

2. What? He won his primary big-time. What in the world do you mean?

Did you go to his website?
http://www.rob2004.com

I am totally alarmed that you think any of that matters really. They certified an election when the votes were not counted.

[madfloridian]

3. I am concerned about your statement.

I am going to do a search for articles about the primary, when he spoke out as well.

I am concerned that this post had a response like that.

[Bushfire]

4. I've never heard of the candidate.

Being out of state, I don't know FL politics as well as you. I'm just trying to get some background, and the links you posted didn't tell me much. Ease off of the adrenelin Madfloridian. We are in this together.

on edit: I did not go to http://www.rob2004.com , until after this was posted.

[madfloridian]

5. No, I will not ease off. We are fighting for our lives here.

The articles explain it all, and Rob is fighting and getting press time. It simply never occurred to me that someone would be critical because they did not know the situation in Florida.

I hate it when I read a post that implies criticism, and then I am told to keep the adrenalin down. That is wrong.

I put the link to Rob's website in the OP, so thanks for saying you had not been there.

If you do not have your adrenalin pumping, if you are not outraged, then you should be.

Hillsborough County election supervisor, a Jeb appointee and friend, certified the election in that county when the votes were not counted.