This is certainly evidence of fraud, but who among the lame Republicans will be willing to say so?
Allen West is challenging the "official" results in his congressional race, for which he should be lauded. Wonder if these Broward precincts are in West's district?
All of the above point to new techniques in the fraud game. Older fraudsters had people vote multiple times, used ineligible and dead voters, stuffed ballot boxes, perhaps placed votes on the old lever machines before the polls opened.
This fraud is obviously in tampering with the vote counting or tabulation, which suggests computer hacking at some point in the process of optical scanning or transmission of the results from those scanners to the tabulation center. So this is high tech stuff, but so crude that Romney's zero votes in certain precincts can't pass the initial smell test!
BTW, there is an old video going viral now on YouTube of what I surmise is an Ohio state legislative hearing shortly after the 2004 Bush v. Kerry election, when many 'Rats thought that Republicans stole it by hacking into optical scanning machines and thereby altering vote totals. The video contains the testimony of a top drawer computer programmer in which he states that it is fairly simple to hack into these systems to fix vote counts any way one desires them.
Also, CBS reported that the Romney camp was "shellshocked" at how the election seemed to turn around so suddenly late on Election Day. That's what happens when you're a good guy and play by the rules and can't conceive of how evil your opponent can be, so evil that he doesn't give a hoot about the integrity of the election to the highest office in the land.
If this is allowed then we lost our country long before the election.
I say return to the pen and paper.
Better to wait a few days for the counting to end then allow the other side to cheat its way into power.
If Obama is allowed to be President this way, then WE are encouraging such behavior.
A lot of us were "shell shocked" because were---at least in our county---were NOT told that in 2010 they consolidated polling places, putting one table with two sets of workers (i.e., two stations) where there used to be four. This 50% reduction in staff slowed the process down dramatically, hence we saw lines and thought "voter turnout," when in fact was a normal (even substandard) turnout made to look big by inefficient poll workers due to the smaller numbers of these workers.
Moreover, I think that while all the numbers of absentee/early votes were lower than 08 as we predicted, they were still higher than I expected coming out of early voting.
Franklin CO., which had over 100k Ds vote in 08, had only 60k, but that's still a big lead to overcome just from one county.
If there is a conspiracy answer, then there is never a need to confront the real problems which are that right now the US is a left to center-left country and they flat have more voters who believe in their message of free stuff.
It is doubtful that there are any 99% Obama precincts from Broward in West’s FL-18; those precincts must be close to 100% black, and surely they were placed in one of the two black-majority CDs in South FL (the Alcee Hastings CD and the Fredericka Wilson CD).
Yes, Mitt is such a nice guy he couldn't bring himself to go after O as hard as he went after Rick, Newt and Perry. He is just too good a guy. We should be proud.
But don't despair. We still have NICE guy Boehner running the house and he will be civil and maybe do some crying and he may sell us out again but he will make us proud being so civil. That is what counts.
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Couldn't resist taking that one!
BTW, there is an old video going viral now on YouTube of what I surmise is an Ohio state legislative hearing shortly after the 2004 Bush v. Kerry election, when many 'Rats thought that Republicans stole it by hacking into optical scanning machines and thereby altering vote totals. The video contains the testimony of a top drawer computer programmer in which he states that it is fairly simple to hack into these systems to fix vote counts any way one desires them.The 2000 election aftermath saw the beginning of this Demagogic Party meme-building. As with other accusations made by the Demagogic Party, it references things that *they* are doing, that *they* are guilty of. It's not significantly different from the behavior of a certain faction around here, and I'm through being nice about it. Welcome to 1984, everyone!
I am going to shout.
I DRIVE ALL OVER BROWARD COUNTY FOR MY JOB.
I HAVE SAID REPEATEDLY, AND WILL SAY AGAIN, ROMNEY SIGNS WERE 3 TO 1 OVER OBAMA.
THIS IS FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, West is in St. Lucie county, a county or so away.
But same election goofballs.
This MUST be fixed. Republicans are just too darned trusting. There is no such thing as an honest Democrat—where there are Democrats, there is fraud.