Some moons ago, maybe before Jan Brewer was Sec of State, we used the punch card.
Posted on 11/19/2014 8:44:03 AM PST by SandRat
PHOENIX — The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected a request from Democratic Rep. Ron Barber to delay certifying election results as he challenges the reasons ballots that could shrink Republican challenger Martha McSally’s slim vote lead weren’t counted.
Kevin Hamilton, a lawyer representing Barber’s campaign, said in a letter to the board that there are more than 130 rejected ballots that should have been counted. Barber’s campaign has collected affidavits from voters who said they were qualified to cast a ballot but had their ballots rejected.
“As a result, if the board certifies the canvass without correcting all the errors in the vote count, there is a real possibility that the election for Arizona’s second congressional district will be improperly certified for the wrong candidate,” Hamilton wrote.
Barber trails Republican challenger Martha McSally by 161 votes out of more than 220,000 cast in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District.
McSally attorney Eric Spencer told the board that the only legal reason to delay the canvass was if votes were missing, and none were. He said Barber’s challenge to the uncounted ballots properly belongs in court, in an election challenge.
Supervisor Ramon Valadez agreed. “We are not equipped to adjudicate these issues. We frankly are not. We’re not the right body,” Valadez said.
The election is headed for an automatic recount because the two candidates are separated by less than one-tenth of one percent — slightly more than 200 votes. That recount will be done early next month after the official statewide canvass and involve Cochise and Pima counties Hamilton said the next step is to challenge the statewide canvass. He would not speculate on possible court challenges.
“I’m disappointed that the board took that step,” Hamilton said. “I think it’s a mistake, and we’ll be examining our options about where we go from here.”
The board certified the election results Tuesday afternoon. Cochise County, the other part of the 2nd District, is set to certify its canvass Thursday, and Barber’s lawyers expect to send a similar letter to those elected officials.
“Usually the results aren’t as close as these, but when you have a race with a razor thin-lead and you have Americans whose votes have not been counted because of an honest mistake by a poll worker, that’s something that needs to be fixed,” said Rodd McLeod, a Barber campaign consultant.
The challenge is not the first of this election for Barber’s district. McSally’s lawyers unsuccessfully challenged the counting of some provisional ballots last week.
McSally has declared victory, but Barber hasn’t conceded, saying a recount could change the outcome.
If McSally ultimately prevails, it would be the only victory by a Republican in the three Arizona congressional seats now held by Democrats that Republicans targeted this year. Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Kyrsten Sinema easily won re-election.
Barber won a special election in June 2012 to replace his former boss, Rep. Gabby Giffords, who resigned because of health reasons. She and Barber were both wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt.
McSally is a former Air Force pilot who lost to Barber in the 2012 general election but redoubled her effort this year.
Just ask Norm Coleman.
” .I cannot stand the Republicans....not fighting to crush these scum called Democrat, human beings at every opportunity.”
The Republicans almost never fight back.
Typical RAT chicanery. Pure and simple they are despicable human beings who are ripe with corruption.
So, by miraculous magic, all 130 ‘disputed’ ballots contain votes for Barber ... then he only has to ‘find’ 32 more, in a ‘misplaced’ ballot box that was stored safely under a cactus outside town ...
The demodummies creed is, “You MUST recount votes until we win”, End of story.
They did this in Washington State, Minnesota and other places and following their creed, eventually won.
Count every vote!
Al Franken has some extra ones. Give him a call.
New US Rep McSally, former fighter pilot will fight back.
Some history: in the 2012 Barber/McSally CD 2 race, Martha was up 1300 votes the morning after election. But Barber continued to locate ballots and the Democrats kept counting and counting until Barber won b 2200.
This year, another close race but the Rs were prepared. In locating provisional ballot voters, we called an individual tel#, whose signature was dissimilar from that on file. It turned out that the voter had died and someone else voted using her ID.
Would anyone know how voting is done in that Arizona district? Optically scanned paper ballots? Touch screens? Ordinary paper ballots? Punch cards? Lever machines?
One reason for Republicans to be optimistic: In contrast to similar situations in other states in the past, the GOP controls the state administration and SOS office in AZ.
Pretty good chance that the 'Rat lawyers here are consulting with Al Franken's Minnesota cheaters.
Yep
To reiterate from my earlier post, the GOP has an advantage here that it didn't have in many of the other close races in other states: a Republican state administration and a Republican Secretary of State's office.
We connect the arrows on a paper ballot. It is scanned, but the counts (paper and scanned must matched).
-Must have registered by a certain date to vote in the General.
-Must show Id for state elections (what the Judge didn’t take away).
-Ballots must be received (not just post marked) by the general election date.
-If you received a paper ballot in the mail but came in to “VOTE”, it is provisional.
-If you are student in a college here, all it takes is an affirmation that you are intending to stay here. Students could vote in their home state (depending on the rules there/absentee) and vote in AZ.
This pig Barber stole this seat 2 years ago, Gifford’s stole it in 2010. Only reason any of these races were close was because retards are sympathetic that they got shot.
Rats just got finished stealing the IL State Treasurer’s race. Rats have stolen every other disputed race this year. Not acceptable.
In muzzieland, thieves get their hands cut off.
We need this seat to make 247, eclipsing the 246 in 1946.
I was cleaning out my truck behind MacDonalds in Belfast, ME, and guess what turned up! A box'o'votes. Right! Arizona!~
As a concerned citizen, I immediately Fedexed it to Barber HQ. Don't all get noisy and excited. It did say, "Do Not Open 'Till Christmas."
I woulda sent it to a "Republican," but they don't seem to care about this sort of thing.
Did you send it regersted?
Did you send a copy of the Postal redistration along with a noterized legel letter to the GOP in AZ?
Now that rule just plain opens the door to double voting. Especially in a college city like Tucson, which is in the disputed district, from what I infer.
Plus, a person who votes in more than one state in the same FEDERAL election is committing a FEDERAL crime.
All the other rules make some sense.
BTW, pardon my lack of knowledge on this, but can you elaborate on what "connect the arrows on a paper ballot" means.
ROTFL!!!
Here in Pinal County we fill in the bubble. I think when I lived in Scottsdale we had to draw the lines. Either way is preferable to me than touch screen, etc.
Remember the House decides, in the end, who they seat. And if we have a Frankenfraud situation, Boehner can choose to ignore the ballots, all Dem, found in Uncle Johnny’s Outhouse.
I agree. I like to fill in a hard copy.
Some moons ago, maybe before Jan Brewer was Sec of State, we used the punch card.
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