Move over Florida. There's a new laughing stock in town.
Shoot, link didn’t show up. Here’s the link:
http://www.wfsb.com/local-video/index.html?grabnetworks_video_id=4405211
We need to make a ****ing fist.
breaking news!!!
Bag of Uncounted Ballots Found in CT [Bridgeport!!]
http://nation.foxnews.com/2010-midterms/2010/11/05/bag-uncounted-ballots-found-ct
The level of corruption in Connecticut politics is high, primarily in places like Bridgeport, Norwalk and Stamford (all in otherwise mostly Republican Fairfield County), and in New Haven and Hartford. These are places where much of the population are on the dole or work for government. The state will soon be like California.
Was the Bridgeport poll worker coached into screaming “I quit” when questioned by a poll watcher?
Reaffirms Hugh Hewitt’s dictum “If It Ain’t Close They Can’t Cheat”.
No votes from any such polling place should be counted: rather, everyone checked off as having voted should be contacted, and brought in to recast his or her vote (after providing proper photo identification) at a securely guarded location with high level poll watchers and election lawyers from all of the parties on the ballot.
Yeah, I live in Floriduh and every county does it slightly differently.
When I vote, I must vote at the precinct in which I'm registered. My name is on a roster, I have to show ID and sign the roster and the signature is checked against my legal ID. The ballots are padded and each ballot stub is numbered and the number of the ballot assigned to me recorded on the roster. The actual ballot is not numbered so that the actual vote can not be traced to a specific voter. But every ballot , voted and leftovers, is accounted for and maintained in a chain of custody. We don't "find" boxes or bags of ballots days later.
Why this or something similar isn't the National standard is beyond me. The fact that it is not proves to me that the mechanism for cheating is blatantly intentional.
Nothing to see here folks. Nothing to see here.
It matters not that it was done in the light of day (and a TV camera or two), there will be no penalty to speak of and the ballots will all be counted. There is no downside and folks will likely get their secret rewards.
I used to work as in a voting precinct for election day many years ago in Fairfax County, VA as both a regular worker and as a chief/assistant chief.
Whenever we allowed someone to vote a provisional ballot, that ballot was a special form which was a different color and was sealed in a same color envelope marked “PROVISIONAL BALLOT”. It was placed in a lock box and not opened or counted with our results.
Voters who used provisional ballots were informed that their ballot was not guaranteed to be counted and would have to be reviewed by county election officials as to their validity. Even then it would only be counted if the margin of victory was slim enough that it would make a difference.
Mixing provisional ballots with regular ballots is a disgrace to the election system and potentially disenfranchises legitimate voters.
Deliberately doing this should carry the highest legal penalties.