Posted on 11/12/2012 9:17:29 AM PST by smoothsailing
November 12, 2012
Charles C. Johnson
Mainstream media reports notwithstanding, the Allen West-Patrick Murphy race is far from over, according to a volunteer lawyer with the campaign. Voting irregularities abound in what has shaped up to be one of the most hotly contested congressional races of the 2012 campaign.
On Sunday, the West campaign saw a net gain of 535 votes for Congressman West in a re-feed of early ballots in St. Lucie County, roughly 43.5% of the total ballots cast in the conservative Florida county.
Thats only two votes shy of the number of votes that President George W. Bush won the American presidency with in 2000, said Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a volunteer lawyer for the West campaign. Over 800 votes went missing in Sundays count and of those 800, eighty percent of them had previously gone to Wests challenger, Patrick Murphy. The West campaign likes those odds.
On Saturday, Florida had released an unofficial result showing Murphy with a lead of 2,442 votes, or 50.4 percenta narrow lead which makes his count just beyond the half-percent margin mandated for an automatic recount.
We only need another 249 votes to trigger a statutory recount of the total of hundreds of thousands of votes cast in this race, Shapiro explained. For the media to suggest Allen West has already lost this race is not only irresponsible, its untrue. The media needs to stop projecting what it wants to happen and start reporting the facts of what is actually happening.
I wouldnt be surprised if a statutory recount shifted the final numbers, he added. We only recounted the early vote portion for three days in one county today, which was about five percent of the total votes cast in this race. The numbers shifted in the hundreds when were only about 1,800 votes behind to win. More important than victory however, is democracy. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard and their vote counted. Something is fundamentally flawed with the media when it creates the impression that recounting the votes is unnecessary.
Shapiro doubts that the canvassing board in St. Lucie County is doing its due diligence.
The Canvassing Board in St. Lucie County misled the public, he said. They said they would recount all 37,379 early votes, but instead they only recounted 16,275 early votes from November 1, 2 and 3rd. Still, out of the 43.5 percent of early votes they recounted we picked up a net gain 535 votes. If they recounted the remaining 56.5 percent, theres very little question wed pick up the 249 we need to trigger a statutory recount.
I never experienced the kind of obstructionist tactics and hostility when I was serving on John Kerrys presidential election team in 2004, Shapiro added. I was impressed with the system despite its flaws, but Im starting to realize that theres a big difference when youre a member of the same party as the supervisor of elections than when youre with the opposition. What Ive seen these past few days has caused me to lose some faith and confident in the integrity of the democratic process.
The race was the countrys most expensive House contest, with over $21 million raised. West is among the most prolific fundraisers in Congress.
What? Screw ‘em! Are we to shrink and lose our republic over leftist possible violence? He’ll no...we had better arm ourselves better is all...and stand without being in a rage..as they want us to be.
And, sadly.. I am sure you have yourself observed, some, even here on FR, are defeatists (or long time trolls) :/
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that and I’ve no doubt you’re right.
Don’t know the Florida law on this but it would seem to me Walker is guilty of outright election fraud, she should be nailed.
Reference: Black Box Voting - America's Elections Watchdog Group :-
Go spend the ninety minutes to watch Hacking Democracy where HBO followed Bev Harris as she discovered "When you can't control the Politicians or the voters, then you control the counting! Go back to paper votes and we will have a President that was voted in!" - I guarantee it will piss you off!
It's maddening to not be able to bring up freeper handles. The tip I got from administration didn't work, either, sorry to say.
So for almost 14 years and 4 different computers, I've had the same old, same old.
Leni
Oh - and just so you know - I believe that ALL parties are complicit in screwing with the vote!
Go back to trackable paper ballots.
BUMP
This race has me heartened, disheartened, heartened and very puzzled and angered by the fact that Florida has a Republican Governor and Republicans have solid control of its House and Senate yet there seems to be no evidence that any Republican from the top on down is making any effort to assist Colonel West in securing a necessary and fair recount. I recall images of groups of Democrats regularly trooping en masse to picturesque steps and sidewalks throughout the country in loud, vocal protest of anything that Republicans have done. Where the Hell are Florida Republicans in this battle?? Is there no one to mobilize them to denounce all the obvious election irregularities in Florida? If they do NOTHING to help a hero like Colonel West, what the Hell good are they??? Their inaction is a disappointing outrage!!!!!
I’m not sure if I’m right but as I was reading some of the news reports the military ballots caught my eye. We know how the Democrats really don’t think much of letting the military have a voice and a vote.
“Critical questions are also being raised about the estimated 8,000 military absentee ballots,”
My rant should have made clear that I did not mean Florida Republicans but the elected Republican representatives of Florida.
Here are the numbers from St Lucie and the ballot.
http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf
How do you find 800 fewer votes for votes that you already counted???
The so-called media (SRM) is more interesting in Paula Broadwell’s sex alliances than fraud elections nationwide
giving ‘life’ to your links ;o)
VIDEO— Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hbf3iaEbAuY
VIDEO- Illegal Aliens Caught Voting and Stealing Elections In Florida In Vast Numbers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0
VIDEO- Michael Savage: How Obama fixed the 2012 election: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmJtaOO2etc
VIDEO- Massive voter fraud discovered in April:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0
VIDEO- Whistle blower speaks out about voter fraud: http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=k_rMpQKqZhM
Remember that al Bore had an army of lawyers running around all over the place 2000???
None of the races should be certified including the Presidential race
A grandmother broke the voting machine’s code and went to work, hmmm. It may surprise you???
Should broadcast to every State’s officials!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3lhJVa2AnyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eYIezJyhGWY
Sarah Palin needs to say that a lot louder and not just on Twitter.
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