Dean just said LePore is calling for a recount.

[madfloridian]

She lost some votes. He is on Randi right now.

[madmax]

1. Tell her to take it to the Supremes

On second thought...

[cheshire]

2. Yeah do you think she will count them herself?

[Larkspur]

3. Did she design a butterfly ballot for her election?

:evilgrin:

[Fridays Child]

4. Oh, the irony. I can't take it.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[ibegurpard]

5. Indeed. The woman is irony-impaired.

eom

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. Indeed

[Tamyrlin79]

6. Who is Lepore?

A repug I would guess, but beyond that I have no idea... what's all this about?

[LisaL]

7. She is the woman that cost Gore the election.

A designer of butterfly ballot, so confusing that Gore likely lost thousands of votes in 2000. Now she run for re-election as a supervisor of elections and again, it's a mess. She lost the re-election, but she personally counted the absentee ballots and apparently she counted 6,000 more ballots then there actually were.

[hughee99]

8. I think she was

the Palm Beach County elections supervisor. If Dean is supporting her, I think he's backing the wrong horse in this race. In 2000 she proved that she isn't up to the job, and the people were right to vote her out. An election supervisor is like a baseball umpire, you know they're doing the job right when no one notices them.

[Tatiana]

15. Dean did NOT support LePore.

He supported Art Anderson.

[hughee99]

17. Ah sorry,

I couldn't tell from the post and haven't been keeping up on this lately. In that case, Dean is right on the money, as I secretly hoped he would be.

[Tatiana]

20. Yep :)

Dean and Lieberman (yes, Lieberman) actually campaigned for Anderson. LePore lost the support of the Dem party and, if I'm not mistaken, actually ran as an independent.

[LisaL]

18. no, no, no

Dean is not supporting her.
He supports Anderson, her opponent, who won the election.
If anything can be recounted, it's the absentee ballots.
Apparently, there about 6,000 extra magical absentee ballots that were counted in Theresa's re-election-and that is 6,000 more ballots than they actually received. Some magic, ain't it? They are re-counting the ballots now, but there is an emergency due to hurricane so ballots will probably be gone with the wind. Theresa had personally counted all the absentee ballots and somehow they ended up with 6,000 extra ballots-wow!
This woman is so incompetent, she should have gotten zero votes.

[CatWoman]

33. The Republicans were all about getting her reelected

they saw it as a "vindication" or referendum of the 2000 election.

[Cha]

19. Hello! Art Anderson was one of the Dean Dozen!

Betty Castor was also one of the Dean Dozen!

[DancingBear]

9. Designer/implementer of the dastardly FLA "butterfly ballot" n/t

[Cha]

11. Greg Palast calls her "Madame Butterfly"..but a duer

called her "nazifly". And I thought is was justified!

[demgrrrll]

13. Get Out Of Town! No. She lost some votes? Please. Guess she's

a little long in the tooth to go back to being a flight attendant for Khashoggi. I'll volunteer to follow her around and mock her and stand outside her office and scream get out of Anderson's House!

[MoonRiver]

10. But, but, but didn't the Florida S of S say NO MORE RECOUNTS?

Payback's a bitch LaPuke.

[librechik]

12. that's under appeal

makes me wonder if the whole thing wasn't planned in advance to kill off recounts forever, somehow. I'm sure Le Pore would cooperate in any harebrained scheme they came up with.

[MoonRiver]

16. Can't have it both ways. Either they allow recounts or not.

[Cha]

14. When I read your caption ..I thought Dean was joking..

Some of his ballot humor. After following the election last night in Florida I thought we had put that puppy to rest!

[madfloridian]

21. Nope, he was not kidding. I am looking for more info on it.

He did not get to finish about it, something about 6000 votes.

LOL, funny you thought I was kidding. :hi:

[LisaL]

24. She didn't loose 6,000 votes.

If anything, she gained 6,000 votes. Apparently, they counted 6,000 extra absentee ballots, more than were actually sent in.
She had counted absentee ballots personally, LOL.
They are now recounting those absentee ballots, because they have counted 6,000 more than actually exist.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/politics/primary/recount0901.html

[madfloridian]

25. OMG will that affect the election or what is going on?

Do you have a link or a reference? This lady has problems. EEK!

[LisaL]

27. Yes, I got the link.

I added it to my previous message, but here it is again:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/politics/primary/recount0901.html
Apparently, now they also have hurricane coming in, so, I don't know if they will be able to actually recount these ballots as promised.
But if anybody doubted this woman is incompetent beyond comprehension or much worse, that sure proves it.

[madfloridian]

30. Well, I hope Dean keeps mentioning it and others pick it up as well.

That one little article needs to be shared everywhere! So now they are going to use Frances as an excuse. Guess that is as good as any!

[madfloridian]

29. This paragraph:

"The winners and losers of Tuesday's elections are not expected to be affected by the re-count.
Cohen said he didn't think any extra votes went in to actually race tallies but somehow the total number of absentee ballots cast was miscaculated."

If there are 6000 more votes than there should be, then how could the race NOT be affected.

How can any one person screw up so badly!

[LisaL]

32. I don' t know why after all the mess

she made in 2000, she is still around to screw up more elections.
She should have gotten zero votes.
As for the absentee ballots, she had counted them personally, it's no surprise they ended up with 6,000 "extra". This woman is obviously is incapable of counting. I wish Florida voters would wake up. Nobody should have voted for her, and this latest escapade only proves it.

[madfloridian]

23. Well, Zidzi, I can not find a thing on it. Did you hear him say it?

Okay, if he were joking, then I think Randi Rhodes was fooled as well. I heard it, then at first when I heard the 6000 figure, I thought so, too. But then he said "unfortunately", so I thought he was serious.

I could not find any reference to it when I looked earlier. So.....

:shrug: :shrug:

[faithnotgreed]

28. he was serious when he said it today on randis show

[madfloridian]

31. Yes, it is serious. See Lizzy's post above mine.

That lady is a pure fool.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

22. HA!

Oh the IRONY!!!

The person responsible for the Butterfly Ballot, and who endorsed the touch screen voting machines WITH NO PAPER TRAIL now wants a FUCKING RECOUNT!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


Only a republican...