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

Palm Beach Post ^ | 11-13-2012 | George Bennett

[dalebert]

I am surprised no ne is pitching a fit to chech the voter rolls...and purge them

[Chewbarkah]

This situation points out an obvious area in need of reform. When there is any sort of recount: WHY ARE THE SAME ELECTION OFFICIALS, WHO IN EFFECT STAND ACCUSED OF INCOMPETENCE OR MALFEASANCE, ALLOWED TO HANDLE THE RECOUNTING?

If a judge was sued or charged with a crime, would he be allowed to preside over his own case? Would the IRS find it acceptable for you to audit yourself? Recounts should be conducted by either the Secretary of State’s office, or personnel from another district, approved by the complainant.

[DBrow]

“Something is crooked or they would have just counted them all,instead of having this mess.”

The “solution” for Gore was to recount only in one county until he had made up the 300+ votes. Looks like a pattern.

[seekthetruth]

Rally Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 7am! State Department of Elections coming to Ft. Pierce to audit St. Lucie County SOE!

Hello all,
I apologize for getting this email out so late this afternoon. . . but things are changing by the hour in St. Lucie County.

First of all, thanks to all who came to Ft. Pearce for the rally this morning. We had a great show of strength. Look for coverage on all the local news channels tonight.

We are looking for an even bigger crowd tomorrow when the State Department of Elections the state department of elections comes to Ft. Pierce to assess the tabulation processes in St. Lucie County. The recount in the mayoral race has been postponed and the scenario can change at any time.

Meanwhile, I understand that Patrick Murphy is up in Washington DC for the Freshmen Orientation.

PLEASE COME TOMORROW MORNING and BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Be a part of history!

We MUST stand up for voting integrity and demand a full recount! Here is the date, time, and location:

2nd Rally for Voting Integrity — Tomorrow
Wednesday, November 14th from 7am to 12pm
St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections
4132 Okeechobee Road Fort Pierce, FL 34947
(772) 462-1500

[Uncle Chip]

I think the GOP is trying to get rid of West because he is perceived to be looney by non-conservatives.

Why would that be??? Did he say the word "rape"???

[Gasshog]

Fire the bitch.

[jch10]

Media? How long before the GOP asks him to move on?

[rainee]

I’m reading different accounts of this story & one article states that this “recount” was actually just a re-feed/tabulation..they didn’t recount the votes, just re-tabulated. But the lib media keeps spinning by saying that it was a recount & it was not!! & then keep pointing out that Murphy is already on Cap Hill for freshman orientation, West sore loser etc..I’m soooo sick of this crap!

[Cyclone59]

isn;t it stunning to see this election so rigged by the left and how they fought tooth and nail to have laws enforced or passed and yet the GOP does not even back a veteran up, a man who has done more for this countr than most in the GOP or the Dems.

Which is why we need to develop another True American Party that would garner about 80% of the votes.

[rainee]

Just had to note that the lib media keeps pointing out Murphy is already in D.C. reminds me of football towards the end of the game & if there’s a possibility that the last play is in question, penalty etc..the coach & team usually try to run of the field as fast as possible. Shuttling Murphy off to D.C., same game plan..

[Cyclone59]

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

you would have to take it all, because their thought process is, " Yeah, I made $10mm, but I can live on $4mm", they truely don't understand.

[Uncle Chip]

A release issued by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network late Tuesday afternoon indicated that representatives from his local office will speak at a press conference Wednesday "to call for a mechanical and hand re-count of the ballots in ... the West/Murphy race."

Watch out everybody the Rev is getting his hands into this.

The NAN release said it will look into what it calls "charges of voter suppression and intimidation."

Translation: Poor ol' Gertrude is being suppressed and intimidated from carrying out her electioneering custom of vote fraud. Her hands are being tied by all those looking over her shoulder.

[Uncle Chip]

I am surprised no one is pitching a fit to check the voter rolls...and purge them

And risk being accused by Rev Al of voter suppression??? God forbid.

[machogirl]

Bet you are right.

[ilovesarah2012]

And I read she’s a double-dipper. Retirement and salary from the state.

[machogirl]

good Lord

[ilovesarah2012]

Oh, I so agree! Drives me nuts!

[ilovesarah2012]

West is going to be on Greta’s show next.

[Tunehead54]

4 am reference bump - thanks! ;-)

[GizmosAndGadgets]

That’s almost 5% in error! THAT’S AWFUL.

To add some more perspective to that amount of error: When I first started working for them, our county used the the same punch-card ballots (that made Floriduh election famous). When I asked about the process and the error rates, our election manager explained that all punch cards were automatically run twice, and that the change from first run to second was (IIRC) somewhere around 0.01% So, if that dastardly punch card system was actually capable of near-flawless accounting, then there is no vaild excuse for St. Lucie's poor accounting.