Too many false alarms in this Congressional District 18 recount did not pan out:
First was the accusation of 142% of registered voters voting — not true. It was about 71% as the voters voted 2 ballots.
Second was the 2000 vote swing in the early votes from Allen to Murphy that his campaign witnessed on election night — not true as the recount of the early votes showed.
Third was the 900 votes from “Guatamalan illegals” in Precinct #93 — not true as it turns out to be a senior retirement center On Golden Pond connected to Precinct #33.
Fourth was the box of 304 ballots that the SoE was hiding in her closet — turned out to be ballots with write-in votes on them that had to be manually counted because they wouldn’t go through the machines. Understandable.
Fifth was the highly partisan nature of the SoE and yet she received 10,000 votes from Allen West partisans for SoE.
And let’s be honest atleast the SoE acknowledged her eggregious mistake early on of counting some ballots twice and others not at all, which no one would ever have known about unless she had admitted it.
Sixth was the fact that other counties like Palm Beach had more problems than St Lucie but they were not publicized.
Seventh is the fact that West received about as many votes in St Lucie as there were registered Republicans while his opponent received about 10,000 fewer than there were registered Democrats. West’s numbers there were quite good under those registration circumstances. Had the registered Republicans in Martin County turned out for West as they had in St Lucie, he would have won the Congressional District.
There were just too many intelligence failures in this post election drama for me to lose any sleep over. Not all campaigns, political or military, are won. This was one of those unfortunately.
Thanks for posting, Uncle Chip. West said he would had fought this on because he felt there would be more fraud uncovered tho, the numbers did not give him the recount. Money wasn’t there for legal battle nor his party support as well. He was respectful enough to not drag this out: for his family, the state, his district in which would had turned into a media war. Martin County is no absolute, I believe. It’s several traffic signals from Ft Pierce to Port St Lucie. They had time/opportunity to change the numbers ..Imo. There should be a national conversation to combat election fraud. I think most of the fraudulent voting was set up in the early voting by the democrats.