LePore wins in Palm Bch County election; Betty Castor wins Senate primary.

[JohnLocke]

LePore 65% - Anderson 55%
Castor 61% - Deutsch 25% - Penelas 9% - Klein 4%

Shit!

[aquart]

1. How is it possible for LePore to win? HOW???????????????

[eridani]

10. By cheating, that's how

http://progressivetrail.org/articles/040830Palast.shtml

On Friday, Theresa LePore, Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach, candidate for re-election as Supervisor of Elections, chose to supervise her own election, no one allowed. This Tuesday, Florida votes for these nominally non-partisan posts.

You remember Theresa, "Madame Butterfly," the one whose ballots brought in the big vote for Pat Buchanan in the Jewish precincts in November 2000. Then she failed to do the hand count that would have changed the White House from Blue to Red.

This time, Theresa's in a hurry to get to the counting. She began tallying absentee ballots on Friday in her own re-election race. Not to worry: the law requires the Supervisor of Elections in each county to certify poll-watchers to observe the count.

But Theresa has a better idea. She refused to certify a single poll-watcher from opponents' organizations despite the legal requirement she do so by last week. She'll count her own votes herself, thank you very much!

[IndianaGreen]

19. Why is this woman allowed to cheat like this?

Why aren't the progressives storming her office, as the Freepers did Miami-Dade, and stop her count!

We need international observers for Election Day. We cannot let the rightwing control who counts the votes.

This is a total outrage!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[trumad]

2. What the hell is wrong with Palm Bch County?

sheeeesh

[fujiyama]

3. Argg!

That idiot LePore won! How? BTW is she still a "democrat"?

[onehandle]

4. oh, fuck.

What the Hell is wrong with Florida?

[stellanoir]

5. let's hear it for those

miraculous touch screen voting machines. . .Arghhhhhhh

[Chili]

6. wait - are you being funny? ...or a typo?

...LePore 65% - Anderson 55%

???


If not - it'd be a real travesty if she wins, considering she was counting her own votes?

[Leilani]

7. Unbelievable!

[onehandle]

8. Link?

Sez here that she "has recieved a lot of support from the Republican party".

Big Surprise.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040828/480/mh20108281645

[onehandle]

9. aha!

Theresa LePore, creator of the infamous "butterfly ballot" used in the 2000 presidential election, hoped to hold onto her job as Palm Beach County elections supervisor. During the disputed 2000 election, some voters complained that her design caused them to vote mistakenly for conservative Pat Buchanan instead of Democrat Al Gore. The Democratic Party abandoned LePore and put up a new candidate. LePore declared herself an independent and received backing from the Republicans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50600-2004Aug31.html

[KoKo]

11. If LePore won again, then W.Palm Beach/Boca are no longer Liberal...

Let's just write them off...never campaign there, again. That Witch from Hell wins re-election? This is no liberal area "Palm Beach County" take it off the Dem charts...:puke:

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. She is currently leading 53.9% to 46.1%

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sfl-election_resultspb.htmlstory

[Freddie Stubbs]

18. Now 53.0% to 47%

with 39% of precincts reporting.

[Freddie Stubbs]

23. LePore's lead down to 52.8% to 47.2%

with precincts 49% of reporting.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/sfl-election_resultspb.htmlstory

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. I thought LaPore was a Democrat?

Is she a Ms. Zell Miller? :grr:

[Gman]

14. Surely, no one is surprised by LePore winning

after all she's done in the last few days I don't know why they even wasted the money on running the election.

[Cha]

21. She has to STOPPED!

Is she running against anyone in the General or is this it?

[lavendermist]

15. Good News..I think>>>

I live in a small county in North Central Florida. The voter turnout for the county was 49.67%. Of that, 56.53% were Democrats and 47.80% were Republicans and 19.84% were other or No Party. Maybe we can hope for the same Percentages in the Fall.B-)

[Cha]

16. Go Betty! 61%!! What? Smears Don't

Work?

[madfloridian]

17. Was LePore counting her own absentee ballots? From Kos.

From yesterday at Kos. If this is true, this is really bad.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/30/233657/535

***ALERT Ballot Fixing NOW in Florida
by kimg


Mon Aug 30th, 2004 at 22:36:57 EST

Greg Palast reports that Theresa LePore, Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach is violating Florida election law by tallying absentee ballots in her own re-election race while refusing to certify poll-watchers to observe the count.
Folks, this is a dry run for Nov. 2nd. We need some legal folks, protests, something going on down there now! This must not be allowed to stand. If you can do anything, or suggest something to bring this criminal to justice, PLEASE ACT NOW!

[Cha]

20. How does this happen ..where someone who is running..

is counting their own votes?


Hey, madfloridian! How about that Betty Castor?!

:D

[Ducks In A Row]

22. are the lawyers set for the suit tomorrow

because there's no way she won.

[LisaL]

24. ???

65% +55 %= 120%.
WTF??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????