Ms. Walker was quoted as saying “Tallahassee” ordered her to only count three days. Tallahassee (State Elections) said that’s not true. They were under they impression Ms. Walker (St. Lucie) was going to count ALL early ballots.
Ms. Walker tries to throw the State under the bus and the State says no.
This very well payed St. Lucie Elections director needs to go.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — While state elections officials said Tuesday they had expected a full recount of all the county’s early votes, county Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker said in a press release that state officials told her only the last three days of affected early votes could be retabulated.
“While I desired to do a total retabulation of all early voting ballots and noticed it as such, after consulting with the Division of Elections, I was advised that only the affected ballots could be retabulated,” she wrote.
Walker has scheduled a press conference at 4:30 p.m.
On Election Day, the elections office had problems uploading electronic memory cards with voting results from Nov. 1-3, after old cards were replaced with new cards so as not to overload them.
The Division of Elections spoke to Walker about the issue Saturday and was under the impression the county’s canvassing board would recount all 37,379 ballots cast during all eight days of early voting — not just the three days the Canvassing Board decided to recount on Sunday, according to Department of State spokesman Chris Cate.
The state will send three employees to the St. Lucie office Wednesday to determine how 799 votes disappeared in Sunday’s partial recount of the close, nationally watched congressional race between U.S. Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/nov/13/st-lucie-elections-supervisor-to-address/?partner=popular
And I read she’s a double-dipper. Retirement and salary from the state.