Posted on 11/19/2014 8:44:03 AM PST by SandRat
PHOENIX The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rejected a request from Democratic Rep. Ron Barber to delay certifying election results as he challenges the reasons ballots that could shrink Republican challenger Martha McSallys slim vote lead werent counted.
Kevin Hamilton, a lawyer representing Barbers campaign, said in a letter to the board that there are more than 130 rejected ballots that should have been counted. Barbers campaign has collected affidavits from voters who said they were qualified to cast a ballot but had their ballots rejected.
As a result, if the board certifies the canvass without correcting all the errors in the vote count, there is a real possibility that the election for Arizonas second congressional district will be improperly certified for the wrong candidate, Hamilton wrote.
Barber trails Republican challenger Martha McSally by 161 votes out of more than 220,000 cast in Arizonas 2nd Congressional District.
McSally attorney Eric Spencer told the board that the only legal reason to delay the canvass was if votes were missing, and none were. He said Barbers challenge to the uncounted ballots properly belongs in court, in an election challenge.
Supervisor Ramon Valadez agreed. We are not equipped to adjudicate these issues. We frankly are not. Were not the right body, Valadez said.
The election is headed for an automatic recount because the two candidates are separated by less than one-tenth of one percent slightly more than 200 votes. That recount will be done early next month after the official statewide canvass and involve Cochise and Pima counties Hamilton said the next step is to challenge the statewide canvass. He would not speculate on possible court challenges.
Im disappointed that the board took that step, Hamilton said. I think its a mistake, and well be examining our options about where we go from here.
The board certified the election results Tuesday afternoon. Cochise County, the other part of the 2nd District, is set to certify its canvass Thursday, and Barbers lawyers expect to send a similar letter to those elected officials.
Usually the results arent as close as these, but when you have a race with a razor thin-lead and you have Americans whose votes have not been counted because of an honest mistake by a poll worker, thats something that needs to be fixed, said Rodd McLeod, a Barber campaign consultant.
The challenge is not the first of this election for Barbers district. McSallys lawyers unsuccessfully challenged the counting of some provisional ballots last week.
McSally has declared victory, but Barber hasnt conceded, saying a recount could change the outcome.
If McSally ultimately prevails, it would be the only victory by a Republican in the three Arizona congressional seats now held by Democrats that Republicans targeted this year. Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Kyrsten Sinema easily won re-election.
Barber won a special election in June 2012 to replace his former boss, Rep. Gabby Giffords, who resigned because of health reasons. She and Barber were both wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt.
McSally is a former Air Force pilot who lost to Barber in the 2012 general election but redoubled her effort this year.
Rule Number Two in Elections: ALL VOTER FRAUD FAVORS DEMOCRATS.
Rule Number Three in Elections: ALL VOTER-MACHINE CALIBRATION ERRORS FAVOR DEMOCRATS.
What am I missing? He trails by 161, there are 130 ‘disputed’ ballots. In the unlikely event that he won them all, he still would be short.
Democrats always want to keep counting votes until they win.
He’ aDemCheat
Democrats ‘find’ and then count the ‘votes’ until they win. Barber was one of the first to blame Republicans for the Giffords murders by Jared Loughner. Turns out Loughner is a far Left wacko who hated Giffords because she was far enough Left. LEOs knew of him as he had threatened numerous people, but his mom was in the City of Tucson Gov’t, a Dem of course, so nothing was done about Loughner. Barber is a sleazy, smarmy politician. I HOPE Tucson gets the worthy Congressperson, McSally.
He gets an investigation into the "intent" of the voters that will give him what he really wants: time to manufacture more lost ballots.
Rule Number One in Elections: ALL RECOUNTS FAVOR DEMOCRATS.
Rule Number Two in Elections: ALL VOTER FRAUD FAVORS DEMOCRATS.
Rule Number Three in Elections: ALL VOTER-MACHINE CALIBRATION ERRORS FAVOR DEMOCRATS.
AND....Pima County is run by left wing criminals.
Good news!
That's only for Repbulicans.
Democrats get the votes counted now.
Republicans are told to go to court, and then the court tells Republicans that it's too late.
-PJ
All ballots should be numbered and registered. Every voting precinct should be given a series of ballots. they should ALL be accounted for before any results are announced.
Of course he does. Rats have won 11 out of 11 races that were too close to call. Chance, I think not.
County election boards have standards and is is unlikely the 130 votes are really "disputed". They are, most likely, clearly disqualified under the law.
I'm the judge on a local precinct election board. We can be instructed to give someone a provisional ballot even when we know the voter is clearly unqualified as a means to diffuse a situation. The county board can then flag the ballot at their level while we can tell them that their provisional vote will be counted if found qualified.
Scumbag should concede.
Here were the other close races as suggested in this Politico article.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3224198/posts
and how did the GOP fare?
Well, McSally in Arizona and Sullivan in Alaska for Senate are the two bright spots for the GOP in close races, SO FAR. The remainder either flipped from GOP to RAT (CA7, CA16, and CA52) or the RAT increased his lead. So if you’re scoring at home thats
RATS 13 GOP 2
Just another facet of the Democrats’ War on Women.
All ballots should be numbered and registered. Every voting precinct should be given a series of ballots. they should ALL be accounted for before any results are announced.
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Better would be ballots attached to tax bills and only validated with payment. What, no tax bill? Guess you need not vote to spend my tax money. There is no RIGHT to vote in the constitution.
let me count the disputed ballots, I have expertise in these matters
I am so sick of the Democrat vermin like Barber pulling their vote fraud game. I cannot stand these Democrat low life dregs cheating......but worse then that.....I cannot stand the Republicans....not fighting to crush these scum called Democrat, human beings at every opportunity.....and even worse than that.....i cannot stand the election administrations that let the Democrat scum go on endlessly until they win by cheating!!! SICKENING!!!
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