Posted on 11/06/2010 9:29:21 AM PDT by raptor22
I'll post more on this when I have it, but two sources who are familiar with the recanvassing of the voting machines in NY-1 tell me that GOPer Randy Altschuler, who'd been down several thousand votes to Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop is now up between 300 and 400 with the recanvass completed.
There's over 9,000 absentee ballots to be counted starting next week, but the Republican had been down by 3,400.
UPDATE: Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan says the number is 392 and that it was the number their campaign lawyer received from the Board of Elections.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
More need to be recounted.
Military votes ... ???
Keep counting. The Dem votes must be somewhere...
I wouldn’t be surprised if they are Democratic-leaning absentee ballots.
Will he win? We’ll see.
If I’m reading this correctly — are you saying that Just the recanvassing of the voting machines (not the actual ballots) has shown a discrepancy this wide? That is amazing.
Calif machines don’t tally votes — the machine only tells us if we over-voted.
Check the sewer, airport lockers, launderettes....they're there somewhere!
Typical RAT shenanigans!! They originally put Bishop up by 4000 votes. Then they recounted and put Altschuler up by close to 400 votes. The authorities excuse was because mistakes were made in the counting procedure. Notice mistakes always favor RATS. Altschuler better pay close attention because they’re out to steal it from him. The same for the CT. governor’s race, the Washington senate race and of course Harry Reid’s illegitimate win in Nevada.
They should re-canvass all of the machines in NY.
Article from NY Newsday:
Altschuler leads Bishop after voting machine re-canvass
November 5, 2010 10:51 PM By JAMES T. MADORE
In the close House race on the East End, Republican Randy Altschuler moved ahead of incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop Friday after a re-canvass of voting machines.
Altschuler leads Bishop, a Democrat, by about 400 votes, both campaigns said, citing data from the Suffolk County Board of Elections. That represents a swing of almost 4,000 votes because Bishop was ahead by 3,461 earlier this week. A senior elections official, who requested anonymity, confirmed the numbers.
Still to be counted are absentee ballots. Of 13,000 issued, 9,901 have been returned, including 3,611 from registered Democrats, 3,953 from Republicans and the rest from either minor party members or the unaffiliated.
Democratic elections Commissioner Anita Katz declined to comment due to pending litigation involving the House race. GOP commissioner Wayne Rogers declined to comment because he was dining with his family, adding he would discuss the matter Monday in working hours.
Bishop aide Jon Schneider said, “there was a wild miscount of the ballots [on election night] . . . we intend to get to the bottom of it.”
Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said, “Today’s turn of events reaffirms what we said on election night - this race is far from over.”
The House race is one of several that remain too close to call. All appear to have been affected by this year’s new voting system, where paper ballots and optical scanners replaced the old lever-voting machines.
Elections experts speculated the large swing in the Bishop-Altschuler vote tally may be because inspectors misread printouts from the scanners and relayed the incorrect information to the board on Tuesday night.
The reaction from party leaders was mixed. Edward Walsh, Suffolk Conservative chairman and an early Altschuler backer, said, “We’re back in the game.”
Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer said, “We’re back in a situation where we’re going to have to count every single vote” by hand.
I'm glad to see the Republican ahead, but am I the only one disturbed by a voting system so sloppy that the vote can shift by several thousand just by recanvassing (not even recounting)? Less than 200,000 people voted in that district, so that's an error of at least a couple of percent. Is there some systemic error in New York voting that needs to be fixed? Did they skip precincts counting the first time? Write down the wrong numbers from voting booths or precinct counts? Miss actual ballots (not likely yet since this wasn't a full recount)?
Seriously, how long are the states/country going to put up with Dem vote fraud. It has been escalating for about 20/30 years and has now reached critical mass.
vaudine
Nah, that was Franken's gig.
vaudine
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