This isn’t a “recount”. Because this county had a problem election night when counting the early votes. They claimed a computer tabulator glitch, and they ran those ballots through twice.
West says it changed the result by 4500+ votes (he is losing by about 2400 District wide.) The controversy generated this procedure today (presumably at the insistence of the state Division of Elections).
Because St. Lucie has not technically completed its count, and formal reporting to the state, this is more of an audit than a recount. If the margin of victory (now .7%) changes to .5% or less, an automatic recount of all the votes cast in the 3 counties will be ordered.
The legal problem I see is that the public notice from the Supervisor of Elections office stated it would recount ALL the early votes today. But a County Attorney (who has no jurisdiction over a Constitutional office like the Supervisor of Elections) made an announcement they were NOT counting ALL the early votes, but rather only the final 3 days of votes cast. I hope West’s lawyers are good ones, as this should be challenged. His campaign people are issuing strong statements, but in this situation, legal advice is more important than politics.
<>They claimed a computer tabulator glitch, and they ran those ballots through twice. West says it changed the result by 4500+ votes<>
What a coincidence!!! That just happens to be the approximate number of voters who voted just for the Presidential race and didn’t have the time to vote the Senate or House race or anything else. What are the odds???
http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf
My suspicion is that about 4500 Republican ballots were pulled during this glitch and about 4500 ballots with only the Presidential race marked off were substituted. Even when committing vote fraud Democrat operatives are too lazy to do it right and take short cuts. Filling in all those ovals is such hard work and time consuming.
St Lucie should open its books and let us see these 4500 Presidential-only ballots and do some splainin’.