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.
If I recall, when Al Franken stole the election in MN, it was the back seat of a car that they found them....go figure.
Why is there always a bag of ballots found by Democrats and then they are favored in their majority? Go figure.
Is this where the Reverse-911 system was used to contact voters...and in only some precincts?
Unfortunately, that is true. Seems like bags of ballots always show up in Democrat controlled precincts in every close election, often in the trunk of a party bosses car, in a union hall, ...
The left doesn’t even hide it anymore, this is so pout in the open now.
everytime a race is close the media will not call it for the republicans if they’re leading but even funnier is that in a close race the left always seems to produce bags of votes which not have been counted days later.
MN was the latest fact of this
their sidekicks in the media will cover for them while they keep printing votes out and hey suddenly we’;ve found another bag of votes look, count them
Media says OK we’ll report that every vote must count, nothing strange about it.
The media right now are destroying this country and letting the rats get away with election fraud at every election.
Why do Republicans never “find” a bag of ballots?...........
It takes longer for the “dead” ballots to show up......
I think I am going find a bunch of Dem women and tell them I have a bag of ballots in my pants.
we need to get to the local media offices up and down this country and demand they do their job plus FOX needs to start camping out in this town and cover this 24/7
people need to know how the left always does this and always seems to find votes days after an election when they’re behind
You know what...
All these “bags of ballot” issue could be resolved in one very simple and secure manner.
#1 Place a serial number on the voting machine or scanner.
#2 As the machine/box is emptied that day, the bag is sealed with a tamper proof numbered tag. And a chain of custody is generated.
#3 Opposite party poll watchers/workers verify the first and final bag out of the machine/box.
Any bag not located is immediately reported missing.
Any bag “found” later that is not on the Chain of Custody is simply not counted.
Any bag that is lost, then found, but appears tampered with is disqualified.
I'm figuring this: if the Republican has an 8,000 vote lead but the SOS has declared the Democrat the 'unofficial winner' that has to be a pretty big bag to contain the 8,001 fraudulent Rat votes (assuming the legitimate Bridgeport votes balance out 50/50). Before any of those votes are counted towards the election I would request a full audit of votes cast totals against ballot forms received and then a detailed chain of custody audit on that bag.
We’re lousy at cheating.
IIRC, that was WA state........
Predictable - isnt it? The CT Republican party should contact every person on those ballots and cross reference them to votes already cast and then if duplicates are found - charge each and every one of them with election fraud.
If we don't start playing their game, we're sunk.
Voter Fraud is Treason!
Whenever the votes close democraps ALWAYS ‘find’ a bag of ballots. Isn’t that amazing? Gee.
Yea a bag of ballots is “found” in Bridgeport.
Good grief what a farce.
You should show them your poll...........
**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............
First the Left has to manufacture ballots. Then they have to nick away to reject ballots that were previously counted.
Apply a different standard in ballot counting for Democrats and Republicans.
If this still does not generate a Democrat win, manufacture more ballots and repeat.
No common sense allowed, they all like it the way it is.
Was it the district that LBJ once stole?
Yep. Strange that, huh?
This is out and out fraud. Any person that believes this is legit is as guilty as the cheaters.
It would be nice to see people stand up and reject such a sham.
“...I think I am going find a bunch of Dem women and tell them I have a bag of ballots in my pants....”
And they’ll say “Hey! Is That A Bag O’ Ballots in yer pocket, or are ya just happy to see me?”
Baddabing
What's the difference between an official and an operative?
Notice they also never find this kind of stuff when the race is a landslide.
But let it be a tight race, and eventually a box of uncounted ballots always turns up in someone’s car.
There are easy checks and balances to prevent this.
(1) Each ballot should be printed with a unique number and barcode (with modern printing methods, this adds zero to the cost of the ballot).
(2) As the ballot is being handed to a voter, the poll-worker scans the barcode on the ballot into a database. This makes the ballot a “live” ballot, associates a voting timestamp with it, and also records the name/worker-id of the poll-worker that handed out the ballot.
(3) When the voter is done voting, the ballot number is scanned again. This markes the “live” ballot as “completed”, associates another timestamp with the ballot, and records the name/worker-id of the poll-worker that verified the voter placed the ballot into the ballot box.
The voter associated with the ballot would be secret, but there isn’t any rule that says the poll-workers that handed out the ballot, or the polling place the ballot was cast at, needs to be secret.
Simple steps like this would prevent traitors from stealing a bunch of ballots, filling them out in mass, and then “finding them” in the trunk of a car.
I would think that chain of custody rules would already be in place. I don’t see how a “bag of ballots” can EVER be admitted after the fact. I think any precinct that produces a bag of ballots should have all the workers disqualified permanently and police lock down for the next election. If every vote counting is so important, then how can they pretend it’s no big deal to “find” ballots. Somebody needs to go to jail. Want to count your fraudulent votes, mr rat pig? Let someone go to prison for it. See if they keep their mouth shut.
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