Posted on 11/10/2012 1:20:19 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
At 4:45 a.m. today, after 21-hours of non-stop ballot copying and counting, Democratic candidate Patrick Murphy defeated Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West for the District 18 congressional seat.
The final tally — still considered unofficial — put Murphy ahead of West by 2,429 votes. Overall, Murphy captured 166,799 votes to West’s 164,370 in District 18, which spans portions of Martin, St. Lucie and Palm Beach counties. An automatic recount is triggered by a margin of 0.5 percent. Murphy’s lead gives him a .7 percent advantage. All ballots in Martin and St. Lucie counties have been counted.
(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachpost.com ...
BREAKING: Massive Voter Fraud in St. Lucie County, Florida
Get used to “irregularities” like this.
It’s the new normal.
*BUMP*
Wow, I read this morning that West was winning. Why can’t Florida run an election that makes sense?
Does West have the recourse of paying for a recount?
So the old white men voted against the black candidate! Where’s the charges of racism. Were the black residents inhibited from voting?????? Sounds suspicious. Where is the NAACP filing a protest? “White Panther Party” blocking minority voters at the polls?
Get used to “irregularities” like this.
Really? We should stand for this? We need to take to the streets and demand a new election in 5 states Penn, Florida, Ohio, Wis, Virginia with no early voting!!! The Democrats stole this election and we should not let them get away with this!!!
With more votes then registered voters, I assume West can take this to court.......At least I hope he can
I'm with you. Makes me sick that the Dems had election lawyers in every state ready to go if they didn't cheat enough the first time yet we can't even challenge the vote if they win. God help us if someone in this country doesn't have enough guts to start fighting back. We know it won't be the GOP but I still have faith in the people.
“Welcome to the USSA, comrades.”
Actually, welcome to Chicago. I never thought the country would embrace the slimy corrupt Chicago thugs so enthusiastically and accept their tactics so easily.
If West loses, the right has lost a real champ, and a good and decent man.
Have all the military and absentee ballots been counted ? I didn’t think any result would be certified until next week.
I agree
I thin k this election was stolen , electronically , nationwide
Additionally , I think the DNC knew the Romney campaign was going to rely on their ORCA software very heavily and figured out how to hack that badly , thereby throwing off their end game completely . This is why they were all so smug in the last days . They knew the fix was in .
Hopefully David Petraeus will tell the world what thr truth is about Bengazi now and it will trigger impeachment on grounds of high treason
West needs to keep the irons in the fire , not let up .
Just point our Al F-ing Franken , as an example .....
Take their Alinsky crap and “ run it right back through them “
Racist bastards. Keep the black man in his place.
With 141% voting, do you remember how Saddam Hussein won all his elections???
Allen West Wins Congressional Race: Report
Florida congressman Allen West has won his re-election bid by a narrow enough margin to prompt a full recount, according to sources within the Republican’s ranks.
“Boots on the ground update from the Allen West election count via Gary Angelo Galiano: ‘We win by 195,’” Congresman West supporter Gary Angelo Galiano posted on his Facebook account early Saturday morning.
The margin of victory is within legal guidelines to prompt an automatic recount of all the votes in Florida’s 18th Congressional District, something Congressman West has pushed for since Democrat Party challenger Patrick Murphy was declared the winner early Wednesday morning.
The news follows earlier reports that Congressman West was ahead by 300 votes in predominately-Democrat Palm Beach County on Thursday afternoon.
Citing several discrepancies within the voting process, lawyers representing Congressman West have pushed for a recount on two fronts. On Friday, Circuit Court judge David F. Crow dismissed a motion to impound ballots and voting machines in Palm Beach County, declaring the Tea Party favorite “fell woefully short” in his request. A second motion in St. Lucie County is still pending, reports local television news outlet WPTV.
St. Luce County
The West campaign alleged a “recount” of votes in St. Lucie County saw the congressman move from a 2,400 vote lead to lagging behind his Democrat challenger by 2,000 ballots.
Other shenanigans have surfaced in the past several days since the election was held, reports the Washington Times. Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a volunteer lawyer for the West campaign, told the paper his people were not allowed to witness the vote count at the Riveria Beach vote tabulation center after many ballots were damaged and had to be re-created. Physical barriers were set up to block observers, and after one elderly man complained, he was escorted out of the building by a sheriff’s deputy.
Team West volunteer Ellen Snyder said supervisors “screamed at her twice” for asking questions, and threatened to remove her from the building.
Questions surrounding how an estimated 8,000 military absentee ballots were being counted have also been raised.
If the early Saturday morning report is true, a full and final recount of all votes will be conducted in Tallahassee. It is expected to take at least two weeks.
UPDATE (11.10): Both the Huffington Post and WPTV are reporting Murphy beat West by 0.7-percent, which is over the 0.5-percent margin that causes an automatic recount. West supporters, who were on hand last night during the ballot count, remain steadfast that their candidate has won but a recount will be made.
http://www.therightperspective.org/2012/11/10/allen-west-win-congressional-race-report/
we do it;s the south east part of the state which is run by Dems
West won his seat and obama lost this state but the GOP will do nothing and then in 2016 we’ll have the same crap and we’’ll be cheated again
With 141% voting, do you remember how Saddam Hussein won all his elections???
Most likely how it was done when the counting area was illegal LOCK down!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3lhJVa2AnyE
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