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West asks court to order full recount of early votes in St. Lucie County
Palm Beach Post ^
| 11-13-2012
| George Bennett
Posted on 11/13/2012 2:54:55 PM PST by smoothsailing
West asks court to order full recount of early votes in St. Lucie County
by George Bennett | November 13th, 2012
Republican Rep. Allen West‘s campaign says it filed a request for an injunction late today ordering St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker to conduct a recount of all 37,397 ballots from early voting rather than the 16,275 ballots the county canvassing board decided to recount Sunday.
A copy of the filing wasn’t immediately available.
A partial recount of early votes on Sunday showed Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy losing 667 votes and West losing 132 — a net gain of 535 votes for West that reduced Murphy’s small lead in the congressional District 18 race.
“It stands to reason that if the remaining early votes were to be recounted, additional errors would be uncovered and the tabulation of votes revised accordingly,” a statement from West’s campaign said. “Until these remaining early ballots are recounted, however, the Canvassing Board has arbitrarily applied differing counting standards to similarly situated ballots. The erroneous decision of St. Lucie County to ‘re-feed’ only some of the early votes cast in this election violates the Florida Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection to voters.”
Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Ken Detzner ordered three representatives to St. Lucie County to observe and report on the elections process there. St. Lucie, Martin and northern Palm Beach counties make up District 18.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allenwest; crooks; fl2012; fraud; stlucie; voterfraud
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To: smoothsailing
One has to have ID to get medical care. I don’t understand the “lack” of ID argument. (exception: those in probate and long-term care, but heck, even in the care centers they are supposed to know who you are to get in, get medicine, get treated)
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posted on
11/13/2012 3:49:31 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
To: mgist
“Once all the limosene liberals start losing money, Obama is doomed.”
No, once the limousine liberals start losing money, they will realize how badly THEY are doomed. Obama won’t need their votes or money. The Chicago machine will be in place on a national scale, and by hook or by crook, he will always “have the votes”.
To: smoothsailing
Counting fraudulent votes is pointless. And the destroyed ballots for Romney won’t be there. A sudden appearance of 4,000 votes for the opponent in the middle of the night requires a criminal investigation; ORDER LIE DETECTOR TESTS FOR ALL POLLING PLACE PARTICIPANTS. Was a U.N. ‘poll monitor’ there? TEST HIM/HER TOO. There’s some AlFrankenation going on here!
To: Kansas58
I’m talking about the RINOS and those in the RNC that need to be behind ALLEN WEST right now. Sarah Palin is behind him, the TEA PARTY is there... the RINOS and the RNC? Not! Where is Karl Rove when he is needed?
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posted on
11/13/2012 4:31:25 PM PST
by
pollywog
("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
To: manc
we at least need to expose theim..i hope he takes to court.
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posted on
11/13/2012 4:46:34 PM PST
by
dalebert
To: smoothsailing
Just watched a news report that Ms. Walker’s data readers were “blank”. They never had info on them, ‘she took out the ballots and started stuffing them into ballot readers, 26K ballots so she could have some results’.
Good grief. They never tested their stuff? so, they just ‘didn’t have trouble with uploading the discs, they were BLANK’.
Somebody’s gotten lazy as Stupidvisor of Elections.
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posted on
11/13/2012 4:48:00 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
To: All
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posted on
11/13/2012 4:49:34 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
To: manc
I think the GOP is trying to get rid of West because he is perceived to be looney by non-conservatives.
They’d rather have someone who gives more of an impression of being stable to appeal to the moderates.
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posted on
11/13/2012 4:56:50 PM PST
by
turn_to
To: machogirl
Blank discs? What in the world.
Ole Gertie got some ‘splainin’ to do.
To: turn_to
The GOP hates West because he’s an uppity black man who doesn’t know his place. He would be in Boehner’s worst nightmare. No way West meekly accepts a dictate from Boehner to roll over on the tax and spending issues. I just wish Michelle Bachman would speak up and make it clear that she won’t back any Boehner deal with Obama.
To: manc
The GOP are sissies, they never fight for our guys and gals in trouble.
The just kick them to the curb, and then join the Dems on TV stomping on them (remember Palin).
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:11:14 PM PST
by
roses of sharon
("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
To: manc
“and yet the GOP does not even back a veteran up,”
Spot on, buddy. Thanks for your support.
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:11:52 PM PST
by
sergeantdave
(The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
To: pollywog
just wait till the RNC etc call me up and ask me to get out the vote, to go door to door or help out, all they’ll get is a piece of my mind the cowards and then told to piss off.
A man served this country, he gets screwed over by the left on this election as we all did and Romney and the elitist old guard of the GOP like Peggy Noona etc act as if we did not do our jobs
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:12:38 PM PST
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: smoothsailing
She certainly does. Trouble uploading BLANK discs, so they were hurriedly shoving ballots in a reader. No wonder the votes were screwy.
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:12:44 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
To: All
Levin is going to have West on at the bottom of the hour.
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:13:56 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
we need the edit button LOL.
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:14:11 PM PST
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: manc
“we need the edit button”
That would be nice! Coulda used it when I typed “Chump” instead of “Champ!”
To: smoothsailing
THIS IS REDICULOUS!!!
According to this story, they recounted 16,275 ballots. Of those, 667 votes for Murphy were in error, and 132 votes for West were in error. That’s a total of 799 votes in error out of just 16,275. That’s almost 5% in error! THAT’S AWFUL.
To put this in perspective as to how bad this is, if you were flying from NY to LA, about 3000 miles, with that same level of error in your navigation, you’d miss LA by 147 miles!!! LAX, where are you?
Correct me if I’m wrong.
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:25:46 PM PST
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: machogirl
To: smoothsailing
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posted on
11/13/2012 5:39:56 PM PST
by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline, it's back. 2008, the Decline of America)
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