West asks court to order full recount of early votes in St. Lucie County

Republican Rep. Allen West‘s campaign says it filed a request for an injunction late today ordering St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker to conduct a recount of all 37,397 ballots from early voting rather than the 16,275 ballots the county canvassing board decided to recount Sunday.

A copy of the filing wasn’t immediately available.

A partial recount of early votes on Sunday showed Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy losing 667 votes and West losing 132 — a net gain of 535 votes for West that reduced Murphy’s small lead in the congressional District 18 race.

“It stands to reason that if the remaining early votes were to be recounted, additional errors would be uncovered and the tabulation of votes revised accordingly,” a statement from West’s campaign said. “Until these remaining early ballots are recounted, however, the Canvassing Board has arbitrarily applied differing counting standards to similarly situated ballots. The erroneous decision of St. Lucie County to ‘re-feed’ only some of the early votes cast in this election violates the Florida Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection to voters.”

Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Ken Detzner ordered three representatives to St. Lucie County to observe and report on the elections process there. St. Lucie, Martin and northern Palm Beach counties make up District 18.

“Once all the limosene liberals start losing money, Obama is doomed.”

No, once the limousine liberals start losing money, they will realize how badly THEY are doomed. Obama won’t need their votes or money. The Chicago machine will be in place on a national scale, and by hook or by crook, he will always “have the votes”.

Counting fraudulent votes is pointless. And the destroyed ballots for Romney won’t be there. A sudden appearance of 4,000 votes for the opponent in the middle of the night requires a criminal investigation; ORDER LIE DETECTOR TESTS FOR ALL POLLING PLACE PARTICIPANTS. Was a U.N. ‘poll monitor’ there? TEST HIM/HER TOO. There’s some AlFrankenation going on here!

Just watched a news report that Ms. Walker’s data readers were “blank”. They never had info on them, ‘she took out the ballots and started stuffing them into ballot readers, 26K ballots so she could have some results’.

Good grief. They never tested their stuff? so, they just ‘didn’t have trouble with uploading the discs, they were BLANK’.

Somebody’s gotten lazy as Stupidvisor of Elections.

The GOP hates West because he’s an uppity black man who doesn’t know his place. He would be in Boehner’s worst nightmare. No way West meekly accepts a dictate from Boehner to roll over on the tax and spending issues. I just wish Michelle Bachman would speak up and make it clear that she won’t back any Boehner deal with Obama.

just wait till the RNC etc call me up and ask me to get out the vote, to go door to door or help out, all they’ll get is a piece of my mind the cowards and then told to piss off.

A man served this country, he gets screwed over by the left on this election as we all did and Romney and the elitist old guard of the GOP like Peggy Noona etc act as if we did not do our jobs

THIS IS REDICULOUS!!!
According to this story, they recounted 16,275 ballots. Of those, 667 votes for Murphy were in error, and 132 votes for West were in error. That’s a total of 799 votes in error out of just 16,275. That’s almost 5% in error! THAT’S AWFUL.
To put this in perspective as to how bad this is, if you were flying from NY to LA, about 3000 miles, with that same level of error in your navigation, you’d miss LA by 147 miles!!! LAX, where are you?
Correct me if I’m wrong.

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