Posted on 11/09/2006 12:26:46 PM PST by cyclotic
Republicans have declared a 21-17 victory in the fight for control of the Michigan Senate, but Democrats are questioning voting irregularities in Oakland County and Saginaw-area districts.
Democrats said a large number of absentee ballots were torn during a vote count in Oakland County's Bloomfield Township and had to be duplicated by hand.
Hand counts in Oakland County and outside Saginaw lasted into early hours of Thursday.
Democrats said they are reviewing their options but have not decided whether to ask for recounts.
Senate Republicans called Democrats sore losers and have denied any irregularities.
I'm surprised they haven't claimed irregularities and cheating in Tennessee for Ford's loss.
Cigarette burns make the plastic all lumpy.
From 04. Tell them to put some ice on it.
"Craziest thing I've ever seen," said one poll watcher. "They had 100 tables and just five poll watchers trying to monitor them. Every table had a pile of empty ballots. If the machine rejected a ballot, the workers would just take a fresh ballot, fill it in the way they thought the voter wanted (Detroit voted heavily for Kerry), and then put THAT ballot through the machine." The poll watcher also reported unsigned ballots being counted in the machines, a violation of absentee procedures.
Alarmed by this open fraud, the party brought in more poll watchers only to be confronted, according to a Detroit Free Press account, by a Kerry campaign lawyer "who arrived and began yelling at the 20-30 GOP lawyers." Policemen were called to restore order to the proceedings after which the additional Republican poll watchers were all escorted off the premises.
http://www.nationalreview.com/battleground/battleground.asp
I'd like to think it's because our leaders are classy. The truth is probably that they are spineless.
They absolutely left Dornan and Woody Jenkins out to dry in 1996 and I haven't seen anyone in the GOP act like they care about being constantly ripped off since.
Welcome to the GOP: just lie back and take it. No wonder Foley felt at home.
A: After you die, a tick drops off.
How about the state House? Didnt the GOP have a majority there before? I wondered if there were any changes. I think I read they kept control in Ohio too. Interesting that despite the overall Demo trend, that the GOP could keep legislative houses in some of those big states.
If the Republicans aren't tough enough to do something about the RATs stealing elections...well....the RATs may be RATS, but they're not stupid. They know exactly what they're allowed to get away with!
That's the stupidity of it. The rats won the state house. Apparently the Republicans are only partially corrupt in their voter shenanigans (sarc)
So much for setting a new tone of civility and bipartisanship by having 'pubs like Allen avoid rancor by not challenging his close election - Republicans con themselves again.......
Democrats would know a thing or two about "Irregularities" in elections! They must be disappointed that their ballot stuffing wasn't successful...
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