Posted on 11/13/2009 9:34:20 AM PST by pillut48
As it stands now, Bill Owens may be in Washington and voting the Pelosi Party line but when the vote is certified he may be ousted. The state Board of Elections indicated that "...all ballots will be counted, and if the result changes, Owens will have to be removed." Concession speech or not, if the voters in the 23rd District elected Doug Hoffman and not Bill Owens, then Hoffman will be the Representative.
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Frankin did it. Why not Hoffman?
Would that invalidate his Pelosicare vote? Does Hoffman get to recast a vote?
That’s the question I’m interested in - I read here yesterday that the vote already cast would hold. I’d make a challenge to that vote my first order of business....
My hope is that even if he doesn’t eventually pull it out, he gets it close enough that he legitimately claim grounds for a recount and maybe even legal challnges if there are grounds. In the meantime, Owens would not be voting in the House.
I’m just curious if this is overturned and Hoffman is sworn in if Nazi Pelosi will still come out and say “I feel we won.”
My disgust with Democrats grows by leaps and bounds. We are not countrymen with them anymore.
Where is the common ground between being able to pay a doctor out of our own pocket if we choose to do so and you’ll go to jail if you don’t have a policy? How do you even come to a compromise between the two positions?
No and no. What's worse, there's no guarantee that Hoffman, even if certified the actual winner, would replace Owens. It's complicated, but it essentially comes down to a simple majority vote on the House floor. IOW, the Dems would have to vote to remove Owens and replace him with Hoffman.
Anyone notice that bad counting seem to favor the democrats.
Is it too much to assume there are some corrupt election staffs who deliberately undercount republican votes
Oh, if Doug officially wins the election it will open a whole can of worms. Will Nancy seat him in the House? Will he get to change Owens’ vote to a “Nay” (wouldn’t change results, but it would close the narrow difference to 216-220—that’s supposed to be a mandate, Pelosi, that ALL of America wants Obamacare??)—we’ll see! I’m praying that there’s no MORE shenanigans while the rest of the votes are being counted! Are the county officials in NY23 trustworthy? Sounds like they might be, or this wouldn’t have been brought up in the first place, would it?
Even if Hoffman ends up with more votes, Owens will ask for a recount.
If the vote is close, the dems will cheat, and the dems will win. It's what they do.
WHY does it take WEEKS to count 10,000 votes????????//
Many of those absentee ballots may go for Scazzafava (sp?). Her name was still on the ballot when these absentee ballots were mailed out. It probably won’t change the outcome.
And back in the day people like Newt were telling everyone that they had to suck it up and vote for the liberal. Scratch that, he said liberal republican. Somehow there is a difference.
Not ‘wimpy’—Doug had no reason NOT to believe what the commissioners were telling him about vote counts the night of the election...how would it look if he HAD protested and argued when he was told 93% of the vote was in and in Owen’s favor?
I think he did the dignified thing, not the wimpy thing. In hindsight, now that some shenanigans have been outed, we’ll see how he responds to all of this.
My money’s still on Doug!
Why don’t we learn to do the same thing.
It passed 220-215. the change would be to 219-216. its not the effect of that small change however. it would give the dems nothing to hang their hat on from the recent elections and make it more difficult for dem leadership to twist arms and get the votes.
Was only 5800 uncounted absentee ballots last i read so chances are very very slim since Dede was still a candidate when they were mailed in.
Were Hoffman to somehow have the votes Pelosi will attempt to deny him his seat. This will work short term but backfire when Hoffman (hopefully) runs again next Nov. and the people express their displeasure at having their choice negated by the botox witch.
IIRC, they have to wait for as many absentee ballots to be delivered and they have to make sure they were posted by November 2nd. Depending on how far away the ballots had to come (military members are all over the world) I can see why it would take a few extra weeks to finish the counting.
“Frankin did it. Why not Hoffman?”
First of all, Franken didn’t do it. ACORN and SEIU scum, cheats and thugs did it at the behest of the Democrats. Does anyone believe ACORN or SEIU would be assisting Hoffman in a recount? Dream on then wake up in the real world if you do.
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