Posted on 11/05/2010 8:27:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
In what has become one of the stranger twists in an already bizarre Governor's race, a bag of uncounted ballots was found in Bridgeport Thursday night.
Republican officials were approached by Democratic operatives and told about the surprise ballot bag, according to Bridgeport GOP Chairman Marc Delmonico.
“It adds to the inconsistencies from the Democratic Party in Bridgeport. It just keeps adding to it,” said Delmonico. “There’s nothing odd about it; there’s certainly nothing missing about it,” said Ed Maley, a representative for the Democratic Party.
Delmonico said Democrats asked to have several people deputized to count the uncounted ballots, but Republicans objected, claiming that wasn't proper procedure in the vote-counting process.
“These ballots are getting extraordinarily heightened scrutiny. They’re being dealt with in a public fashion, an open public process so that everyone can witness it,” said Mark Anastasi, the city attorney for Bridgeport.
Instead the GOP asked police to take custody of the bag of ballots until the matter could be sorted out.
The votes could be pivotal in the race for Governor, in which neither candidate has conceded defeat.
Wednesday, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz declared Democrat Dan Malloy the "unofficial" winner, but numbers released by her office show Republican Tom Foley still leading Malloy by more than 8,000 votes. Those totals do not include any of the vote totals from the City of Bridgeport.
Bridgeport has become the focal point of what has turned into a circus of an election.
A ballot shortage led to long lines on Election Day, and a judge issuing an order to keep polls open until 10 p.m. Tuesday, two hours longer than every other town in the state.
Because of the shortage, many of the votes cast Tuesday were done so on photocopied ballots.
Election officials began counting those ballots just after 5 p.m. Thursday when the new bag of uncounted ballots was discovered.
Bysiewicz said she didn't expect the vote totals from Bridgeport to be submitted to her until Friday at the earliest.
**I wonder where they found them?**
Are these the photocopied dimocrat ones? Not funny, huh?
The Washington Governor's face, the Al Franken race, there was another I can't recall details about but I think it was in Texas last election - where they "found" a bag of ballots in the trunk of someone's car???? Give. Me. A. Break.
These new Republican state houses need to stop this and they need to stop it ASAP. If your "bag of ballots" isn't there to be counted, then it is inadmissable. Sorry. Maybe you shouldn't be hiring incompetent SEIU union f***s to rig your elections for you.
A ballot shortage led to long lines on Election Day, and a judge issuing an order to keep polls open until 10 p.m. Tuesday, two hours longer than every other town in the state.
...and how is it that they didn’t know how many registered voters there were. This shortage looks a little too planned for me as does the “found” bag of Photocopied ballots resulting from that shortage.
Dust them for FINGERPRINTS.
When Gregoire beat Dino Rossi in WA after two recounts, the election was turned on a box of votes found in a “closet”.
Simple rule. If a vote can’t be accounted for from the time it is cast to the time it is counted, it needs to be disregarded, and the person responsible for the chain of custody needs to be prosecuted for election fraud.
That will stop these games.
This is such banana-republic blatant electoral fraud. I always wondered why the old Soviet Union bothered with their sham elections. Now I wonder the same thing about us.
It would be nice if one day, ballots were as secure as, say, lottery tickets. Each lottery ticket has an identification number on it. If you show up with a winning ticket, the lottery officials can instantly tell where the ticket was purchased and if it was stolen. Yet, every election, we seem to run across bags and bags and bags filled with ballots which coincidentally contain lots of democrat votes.
One of the oldest tricks in the book. I guess the Slave Party must have had a hard time finding people who could read to fill them out.
Is it the same bag o’ ballots that was found in Texas by Phlegmocrats?
Use Of Election Day Reverse 911 Scrutinized
Of course, WA has had its share of shady happenings!
This is happening in widely scattered states.
Same thing happened, yesterday, in a Texas district. Dim lost...but, wait!! A bag of ballots was found! And every vote was for the dim!!!
This is third-world, banana-republic sh*t. We have GOT to do better as a country.
Because there are few positions in government requiring both a brain and an ounce of creative integrity. Hence Democrats run all the lower levels of bureaucracy, including counting the votes.
It’s just the Ghost of LBJ bringing some early holiday cheer.
“Why is there always a bag of ballots found by Democrats and then they are favored in their majority? Go figure.”
And they want us to say ‘okey dokey.’ GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
HILARIOUS! The rats got their timings wrong; she was supposed to make that declaration AFTER the bag was 'found'. Now they have to think up some fancy justifications.
This is why "registrations" done by ACORN or Mi Familia are so crucial to their methods. They have thousands of bogus registered voters that obviously did not vote. They find out how many bogus ballots they need, stay behind locked doors and fill out that many ballots, then fraudulently sign that many fraudulent signatures on their rolls to claim the bogus voters showed up to vote.
Obviously, they are also manufacturing ballots off-site now as well. Probably using union labor. Just look for the union label on your bogus ballot! It's usually there in the district where 102% of the population showed up to vote.
There’s so many, it get’s confusing............
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