Posted on 11/23/2004 1:16:29 PM PST by SolidSupplySide
She said the registrar has been correcting and counting ballots with so-called over-votes in a procedure known as "remaking." Those are ballots where the bubble next to Murphy's name was shaded in, and a voter also wrote-in the mayor's name below, she said.
The registrar, discerning the voter clearly intended to vote for Murphy, is correcting those ballots by whiting-out the write-in vote, she said, which is allowed under the Elections Code.
They are a biased organization.
The bubble next to Murphy's name was filled in, so that counts as a vote for Murphy. If the bubble next to the blank space was filled in, and the write-in was still for Murphy, it should be a vote for Murphy. However, if no bubble was filled in, then no vote should count, as the law requires a bubble to be filled in -- regardless of wherher it was Frye or Murphy written in. That isn't so difficult.
Why was this fraud, Ms. Frye, even on the runoff ballot. She was a pig in a poke candidate, she did not even run in a primary. She tried to steal an election 2 times.
Ought to be in jail.
This was a ridiculous and frivoulous lawsuit that never should have gotten to court.
What if the bubble is filled in next to Murphy's name, and the bubble is also filled in for a write-in vote, and his name is also written in. That's the situation there.
If the city charter doesn't allow write-ins then why is this even an issue? Why is there a write-in candidate at all?
Frye is an Independent
Frye is a Democrat Left Wing Hippie
Then that ballot is discarded as "no vote".
If the filled in name was anyone other than Murphy, it would be a "no vote".
That was my thought, after seeing her on TV. She appears stuck in the same time warp as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
I see. Well, I don't see much difference between the two, except that one set of voters are permitted to not fill out their ballot according to the law and another set is not.
Rather arbitrary. The law is stupid and should be changed. If the vote is obvious it should be counted (and that doesn't include pregnant/dimpled chads, I might add..)
It seems that you can read, so it shouldn't matter either way.
Allow me to retort:
It seems to me that the Florida Supreme Court tried to let someone other than the 2 of us decide which votes were, to use your term, patently obvious.
Don't like the rules, rewrite the law.
Until then, according to the SCOTUS, it'll have to be whatever the law says at the time the votes were cast.
I have no idea, but it was clearly stated that one of the reasons that there should not be any recount of the write-in votes was that the San Diego city charter does not allow write-ins in a general election.
If you ask me this is just another symtom of the madness of the left insisting that "every vote be counted" no matter whether people fill out applications or ballots correctly, vote in the correct location, or even fill out ballots properly.
I disagree with you. People MUST take some responsibility. Who the hell ever told them that they could do whatever they damn well please, not follow the rules, and somebody else will cover their butts for them? It's just damn laziness & ignorance.
You could tell me that you would come to a different conclusion than me about who the voter intended to vote for after you read the name they wrote on the write-in line, and I would simply think you were lying. I would think the same about anyone else who said likewise, with a slim chance that they might instead be illiterate or stupid.
Let's just leave it at that.
If write-ins aren't permitted at all then none of them should be counted and that should be the end of that. That is not a ridiculous bubble technicality such as others are attempting to defend. That is a serious irregularity.
If the rule exists the rule is stupid and should be changed. Get rid of the damn bubble if you have to. LOL
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