Posted on 11/18/2012 9:21:57 AM PST by Nachum
Fort Pierce —
Update: Campaign officials for Patrick Murphy, Democrat candidate for the congressional district 18 race, are calling their candidate the winner because the St. Lucie Canvassing Board has missed the noon deadline to certify results to the state Division of Elections.
Under Florida law, if the deadline passes with final certified results, the unofficial certified results filed last Sunday stand. Those results show Murphy ahead by .58 percent – above the .5 percent spread which would trigger an automatic recount.
West officials were not immediately available for comment.
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The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board resumed ballot counting this morning in the tight congressional race between Republican Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy under the watchful eyes of dozens of attorneys and supporter of both candidates.
anvassing board member Tod Lowery, who regularly updates the audience on the process, explained that the board still had write-in ballots and other questionable ballots from 8 days of early voting to review before the noon deadline for the state’s 67 supervisors of elections to submit their final, certified tallies to the state Division of Elections.
Last Sunday, the canvassing board agree to recount ballots cast the last three days of early voting after election officials revealed that machines had been unable to read some of the electronic memory cartridges. West’s attorneys then sought a recount of all early ballots after the elections office admitted double-counting some ballots and ignoring others on election night.
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So you are telling me that they count each part of the ballot separately. I read somewhere there were 3 pages of the ballot.
Murphy “wins” by malfeasance. I don’t think so,
West seeks hearing after Murphy camp declares victory when St. Lucie board misses noon deadline
FORT PIERCE —
The St. Lucie County canvassing board has missed a noon deadline to file election results to the Division of Elections, prompting campaign officials for Patrick Murphy to declare the political newcomer the winner in the race for congressional District 18 race.
Under Florida law, the final certified results were due from all of the state’s 67 supervisors of elections today. If the results do not arrive on time, the certified unofficial results submitted last Sunday stand. Those results have Murphy winning by 0.58 percent. A spread of less than 0.5 percent would have triggered an automatic recount.
“Today at noon, it became clear Patrick Murphy will be officially certified as the next congressman from the 18th Congressional District,” Anthony Kusich, Murphy for Congressman campaign manager, said in a prepared statement issued around 12:40 p.m. “The voters have spoken and Patrick Murphy is once again the clear winner. It is beyond time to put this campaign behind us and put the interests of the people of the Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches first.”
“All Patrick Murphy wanted was to follow the law,” said attorney Gerald Richman, a member of Murphy’s legal team. “They absolutely missed it (deadline). Whatever it is, it is. We just want the law to be followed.”
Tim Edson, Murphy’s campaign manager, disagreed.
“As usual, Murphy’s people are full of garbage,” Edson said. “This is something the secretary of state and governor will have to sort out.”
Edson said other problems arose this morning. The recount showed 900 voters cast ballots in precinct 93, where there are 7 registered voters, Edson said.
“We have concerns here,” Edson said. “The results are raising more questions.”
Shortly after the deadline passed, attorneys for West headed to the St. Lucie County Courthouse to request an emergency hearing on the issue. It is not known if a hearing has been scheduled.
We have been Chavezed. The last almost honest election was ‘08, it is on to Pres__ent for life.
We need to stop claiming that the 141% is an example of voter fraud and concentrate on real fraud, we have enough examples of that.
Some counties did have three pages (per some freepers), what caused this problem was St. Lucie County’s own first two pages of their report. Every other County managed to sort out the two or three pages per voter into actual number of voters.
#AllenWestRecount - From the PB Post "Attorneys for Allen West have been dispatched to the St. Lucie County... "
See post #63 above for a mention of the 900 votes.......
Well, I HOPE these folks will continue counting, even though the deadline has passed so that we will KNOW what the final result WOULD HAVE BEEN.
I have no doubt, however, that law enforcement has been called in to put a stop to the counting and also that these boxes of ballots will go missing or will be BURNED asap!
Gotcha.
No wonder they were dragging their feet and wanted to go to bed early last night and get up late today and eat a lot of donuts before counting that huge pile of 304 ballots.
Am I correct, the vote counting was finished before the 12:00 deadline but the machine/program failed to upload? If so, it is a question of were the votes counted before the assigned hour and a computer error prevented them from being uploaded.
Calling in Scott was my advice to Col. West’s campaign on Face Book.
#AllenWestRepubic - @Gary_Galiano cannot confirm but his source is reliable Florida Secretary of State WILL certify Patrick Murphy on the LAST VOTES. ARE YOU ANGRY PATRIOTS? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?????
A past post...
“Allen West Republic @AllenWestRepub
#AllenWestRecount - Attorney Jeff Shapiro for Allen West speaking on @FoxNews right now - 15 minutes to go for results need”
#AllenWestRepubic - @Gary_Galiano cannot confirm but his source is reliable Florida Secretary of State WILL certify Patrick Murphy on the LAST VOTES. ARE YOU ANGRY PATRIOTS? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?????
Getting malware warning on your page Nachum
Sabotage.
Thanks. This debacle sound crazy, but it’s more nefarious than that.
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