Posted on 12/06/2006 7:21:18 AM PST by Princip. Conservative
Democrat Christine Jennings was in Washington over the last two days renewing her call for a revote in her race against Rep.-elect Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), as government and independent reviews failed to support her case.
Jennings said she would do everything she could to see the legal challenge through. She set up shop at Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee headquarters and was to meet with lawmakers including Reps. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.), Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) and Rush Holt (D-N.J.). She was also asking for financial support and continuing to push her case to the news media.
Jennings’s visit came as state officials continued their audit of the touch-screen voting machines in Sarasota County, where an abnormally high number of ballots cast were “undervotes,” meaning they failed to register votes in the congressional race for the 13th District.
The audit has yet to produce any evidence of machine errors, and a review by a local newspaper published Tuesday points to ballot design as the leading cause of the undervotes.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Contrast this to Senator George Allen in Virginia who qualified for a recount but didn't ask because he knew the same thing these Democrats all know - it wouldn't make any difference! Conrad Burns, to the best of my knowledge, also could have asked for a recount but didn't.
The Dems are sore losers.
wahwahwah! give the crybaby some cheese - she has the whine down already.
notice how elections are fair and just when dems win, but there must be something wrong when dems lose?
If at first you don't succeed, insist everyone make reality fits your demands. Yeah, this is a gal I want determining laws I have to live by...
Don't be shocked if the House refuses to seat Vern Buchanan in January. The Democrats are already discussing that possibility.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/15/Worldandnation/Democrat_controlled_U.shtml
Excerpt from the above-linked article:
If a recount in Sarasota fails to award Democrat Christine Jennings a seat in Congress, she has a final recourse: The newly Democratic-controlled U.S. House.
A little-known provision in the U.S. Constitution gives the House the final decision on who sits in its chamber.
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a South Florida Democrat working with Jennings, said she hopes it wouldn’t come to that, but she wouldn’t rule out anything that would help determine if voters were disenfranchised.
“All options are on the table,’’ she said. “We’re going to explore any available option.”
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Rep. Allen Boyd, a North Florida farmer who is co-leader of the Blue Dogs conservative Democratic group, welcomed Jennings to its ranks Wednesday and said he’s hoping she’ll be able to stay.
He said it’s too early to start talking about the House making a decision in the election but if it does: “We’re in charge. Absolutely she’ll get a fair shot.’’
The Dems only want revotes when they lose. Unfortunately, the contempt of the Dems and the US media for electoral processes has spread out of the country and is now infecting democracies all over the world. And many of them, like Mexico, are not mature enough to deal with it. It is no wonder that Russia and China have such contempt for democracy. If you listen to the Dems and the US media, you'd think that there has never been a fair election, and that democracy is nothing but a huge fraud.
Sore Loserman
Where's the "Aw, geez, not this shiite again" guy?
Typical rat....typical rat....
Figure it out or get the hell out of the Union. The rest of us have had it with your BS.
Verifiable voter identification NOW!
Talk about dis-enfranchised, I'm dis-enfranchished every time an illegal alien welfare recipient votes in an election. Thanks for nothing GOP, you shot yourselves in the foot when you had the majority in both houses. Good luck trying to get any kind of voter fraud legislation passed now. Schmucks!
oh, good! that one is perfect! I was just wondering what she was like growing up, hehe!
thanks, Joe :o)
Keep counting the votes until the Democrat wins.
I think there was an election in the 1970s where the Republican won a Congressional seat by two votes, and the House seated his Democrat rival instead.
More proof that Democrats are too stupid to vote.
Yep, and the moment she wins by one vote, they will declare her the victor.
You don't wake enough dead, you loose.
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