Posted on 11/08/2006 11:30:36 PM PST by tcrlaf
INDIANAPOLIS -- All of the votes cast in Marion County still had not been counted as of early Wednesday afternoon because some voting machines had not been turned in to election headquarters.
The county's Democratic Party attacked County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler for what they called her mismanagement of Tuesday's election, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
Democrat Chairman Ed Treacy compared the county's election troubles with what used to happen in Soviet bloc countries.
Sixty-six regular voting machines were not returned to election headquarters as of noon Wednesday, and none of the electronic voting machines was returned, Thomas reported.
The outcome of the state House District 97 race and three township races hinged on the missing election data.
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Sir Hailstone will have the details I'm certain. He worked in Eric's inner circle. I'd direct that question to him.
(No coffee IS a bummer....But NO chocolate is even worse.)
Indy Dem poll workers, "Who do you think we are ________?"
LOL.
ROFLOL.......
They should have "Tried Harder"!
Or maybe the're down on the Ohio R, cause they thought someone said "bring me the boat" instead of "bring me the vote"!
Please, your attempt to insult my intelligence with that lame piece of legislation as evidence of "doing something" is ridiculous. They were a do nothing congress. They did not lose because of Iraq. They lost because they did nothing of any substance on any issue, even when they had right and justice on their side and the whole country watching the issue it was a PR bonanza handed to them on a silver platter. They tripped the waiter but managed to grab a glass of champagne before he fell and you call that an accomplishment.
That is why they lost. They had the support of their supporters - which is never enough to win - but that made them think they would.
Wow. You really do need a new doctor! :-)
If you ever want absolute proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy, you only have to consider three things.
Oh, but didn't you know? Dems won, so there WAS no cheating or voter disenfranchisement.
But if the election had turned out the other way...
I really don't know enough to even venture a guess as to the IN-07 situation. Sorry I've been busy so I haven't had a chance to look over all the pings I've received, but I'll catch up soon.
For the time being, I just want to mention that by my calculation Kilroy would have to win just 58% of the reportedly outstanding votes to overturn Pryce's OH-15 margin, so that's certainly within the realm of possibility, in particular if those votes are from heavily minority Columbus precincts.
In OH-02 Wulsin would have to take about 65% so there's some outside chance of that as well, but the remaining votes would then have to skew well above her Hamilton Co. margin.
In NM-01 I calculate that Madrid would need to take about 70% of the uncounted votes, so that's mathematically plausible but I think unlikely to the extreme.
Beer YULK! I can and do do without that easily! Never have liked the taste of it.
Agreed.
Only Republicans can shoot themselves in the foot with such deadly accuracy.
sorry, your ignorance is showing.
"Marion County, Indiana is home of Indiana Wesleyan University. It's a conservative Christian place of learning: conservative professors, ministerial students, pre-missionaries, etc. Of course some of the students vote absentee in their home states, but many don't."
Indiana Wesleyan University, is in the city of Marion, Indiana. Marion County is mostly Indianoplis.
My daughter voted absentee from her dorm room there.
Thanks for posting all the information on protecting from voter fraud. It does help me to know some of the details.
FR Mail shortly.
>Can we please avoid acting like the tin-foil hatters at DU who claim fraud at every close election that doesn't go their way?<
Where there's smoke there's fire. Anyone ever read "Votescam: The Stealing of America", by Collier and Collier, ca. 1992? I don't trust vote by mail, electronic voting or ballot counting machines, or anyone who does.
The figure I gave before for OH-02 was in error because I was using the estimate number of uncounted ballots for all of Hamilton County instead of just the part in Schmidt's district.
Based on the latest reports of the number of ballots left to be counted, the percentages that each challenger would need in order to overturn the latest winning margin is: 58.84% for Kilroy to beat Pryce; 80.48% for Wulsin to beat Schmidt; 67.76% for Madrid to beat Wilson.
To state the self-evident, the only one that seems all too likely at all is OH-15. So while they all bear watching, the OH-15 and WA-08 races are the only ones really up in the air it seems to me.
That's for the initial count of course. Recounts might switch CT-02, NC-08, or FL-13, though the odds are quite low I'd say, unless they figure out how to read unrecorded touchscreen votes in Sarasota County, in which case the odds would be quite high.
Couldn't PA-08 switch in a recount as well? The margin was only 1,500 votes prior to overseas absentees being counted.
Fitzpatrick has conceded and will not ask for a recount according to the last reports I saw.
Okay...it would have been nice if I'd checked, huh? LOL
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