Uh oh....recount of absentee ballots in Florida (LePore)

[hang a left]

Discrepancy forces re-count of 6,000 absentee ballots
By Jane Musgrave, Mary McLachlin

Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

A more than 6,000-vote discrepency in absentee ballots counted in Tuesday's election has forced Palm Beach County to re-count all of those votes.

County Judge Barry Cohen, a member of the county's canvassing board, said 37,839 votes from absentee ballots were counted in Tuesday's election — far more than the 31,095 that were actually sent in.

The 12-hour recount will delay certifying the results of elections until at least 11 a.m. Thursday.




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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/politics/primary/recount0901.html

[Walt Starr]

1. They had four years after the worst election debacle in U. S. history

and they still screwed it up.

:eyes:

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. How hard is it to count? Seriously?

And while we're on the subject how hard is it to leave a paper trail on electronic voting (and get an accurate count electronically)... Having written a few programs myself, I don't see why it should take more than a couple of days to write such a thing. HOW IS THIS DIFFICULT????

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[Ready4Change]

3. 6,000 out of 37,000?

That's ridiculous. That's 1 in 6 votes in question.

Why haven't heads rolled in Florida? The states elections are clearly corrupted.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Huh?

A more than 6,000-vote discrepency in absentee ballots counted in Tuesday's election has forced Palm Beach County to re-count all of those votes

What's this mean? Did they have more absentee ballots than what was mailed out, or what? Did she NOT throw enough ballots in the garbage? or what? I'm confused.

[hang a left]

5. This is a thread in LBN

Take a look.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x792967

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. ah hah!

County Judge Barry Cohen, a member of the county's canvassing board, said 37,839 votes from absentee ballots were counted in Tuesday's election — far more than the 31,095 that were actually sent in.



Maybe they counted wrong when the ballots came in? Perhaps there's a Dem insider who was suppose to destroy some ballots that didn't get destroyed?

[ParanoidPat]

8. More likely scenerio.......

.......LePore was involved in the Absentee ballot count. All she had to do is,

1) ADD 6,000 votes for her opponent

2) Rig the Gems tabulator to keep the win by her opponent under the 6000 vote win margin

3) 'Discover' the discrepancy in the number of ballots after she 'lost' and then cry foul!

Now all anyone can do is to recount all of the Absentee ballots and 'discover' the fact that she really won by a razor thin margin.
That will trigger an automatic recount of all of the results.

All of the paper ballots will have already been recounted, the machines will, of course, spit out the same numbers they did the first time and she will be declared the winner, while at the same time making her opponent look like he tried to rig the election and proving, one and for all, that the machines performed flawlessly! (Unlike those damn, confusing paper ballots!)

F*ckin' brilliant! :evilfrown:

Anyone want to place a bet? :shrug:

[hang a left]

10. God I hope that you are wrong.

If this election is overturned and she is declared the winner, I am going to be sicker than a dog.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. This is just a preview, of the kind of crap

BushCo is going to pull in November. You can 'count' on it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. GEEZUS KRIST!

If this plays out that way.....is ANYONE going to cry fowl??? Are there attorneys there for Anderson? Will we riot in the streets NOW instaed of waiting for them to steal the Nov. election? :grr: Daaaaamn!

[LisaL]

16. She didn't loose anything

She "gained". Since she was the one counting the absentee ballots, she can not say her opponent rigged anything. She is in charge, and her opponent was nowhere near the ballots.

[AP]

7. Tell them they've been counted, and recounted and counted again.

Funny that LePore gets her recount, but Al didn't get his.

Where are the protests?

[barbaraann]

9. I'm starting to get the feeling this will end up in court.

OR, Hurricane Frances will destroy the ballots.

Is LePore's election the only one called into question? If it's a ballot problem, that can't be right.

[hang a left]

11. Here is an article about the election yesterday.

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In Miami-Dade County, all 559 polling places opened on time, but NAACP President Brad Brown said a problem had developed over party affiliation.

Some voters said they went to the polls and found themselves registered as Republicans, although they were Democrats or nonpartisan. Brown said the NAACP would request an investigation.

One such voter was Ignacio Correa, a native of Colombia, who said he has been a registered Democrat for the 26 years he's lived in the United States. When he went to cast his vote in west Miami, he said election officials handed him a Republican ballot.

When Correa complained, he said, he was told, "Go ahead and vote Republican." After 20 minutes, Correa filled out a provisional ballot and hopes it gets through.

"How can something like that happen in the United States?" Correa said. "I can see it happening in Cuba or the Congo, but not here."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2004/09/01/s6b_voting_0901.html

[MsUSA]

13. This is outright tampering isn't it???

Yeah, why aren't the people screaming???? Oh my gawd, gave him a republican ballot and told him to vote republican??? I can not believe this sh*t!!

[Endangered Specie]

14. And you wonder why Florida is going to get pounded by Hurricanes?