West asks court to order full recount of early votes in St. Lucie County

Palm Beach Post ^ | 11-13-2012 | George Bennett

[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.

[manc]

exactly, the GOP wants their sheep, West , Sarah etc are not sheep and they can not be controlled just the same as Newt.

They want us voters like the Dem voters where we just get in line and follow blindly.

To think when Col West joined up he woudl never have thought most of his country and his party would have turned on him.

[manc]

yea , isn;t it strange how the GOP did not push more on this issue back in 2008 and for the last 4 years and now we see them high tail it out of there leaving Col West and many of our voters left out under a bus.

[patriot08]

You’re welcome

[smoothsailing]

She’s a triple dipper

http://potterwilliamsreport.com/2012/11/11/allen-west-vs-florida-election-boards-big-dipper-.aspx?ref=rss

[machogirl]

Good Lord, while America sleeps these “public service” workers are lining their pockets, on our dime.

[Parley Baer]

“She’s a triple dipper”

Talk about a government LEACH. She is the epitome of what is wrong with this country.

[sandshark222]

I’m tired of GOP leadership being silent on the voter fraud. Fraud was rampant this election and the spineless establishment RINOs are silent as always.

[Windflier]

Drives me nuts!

I tell you, it's become contagious. I see more misplaced apostrophes now, than ever in my life. We used to laugh when we saw that as kids. It was a sure sign of illiteracy, and we honestly thought it was funny.

[Yulee]

“Why would that be??? Did he say the word “rape”???

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No, he said the word “communist”.

[Java4Jay]

After it was discovered 5 disks where blank (how convenient) they stopped the count, locked the doors, pulled the shades and did the ol’ paper ballot switch. The local landfills are a little deeper tonight.

[Java4Jay]

Fraud was rampant this election and the spineless establishment RINOs are silent as always.

How interesting, I wonder why?