Posted on 11/14/2018 1:27:50 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. - Palm Beach County's ballot-counting machines are working again after mechanical issues caused by overheating delayed the ongoing statewide recount, the elections chief said Wednesday — but the county may still miss Florida's Thursday deadline.
"We're doing everything in our human power possible to make this happen," election supervisor Susan Bucher told reporters when asked if she would make the deadline.
Bucher has faced a growing chorus of criticism, including from President Donald Trump, but she was defiant when asked about calls for her resignation.
"I'm working as hard as I can," she said. "You can see that I haven’t been home in 3 days. And so I don’t think that you’re going to find somebody else that has the dedication."
Bucher said counting equipment overheated Tuesday evening, causing an error in the count for some ballots, but that officials had successfully re-re-counted all affected ballots by Wednesday morning, and two outside technicians were on still onsite in case another problem arises.
Bucher has blamed out-of-date machines and tight deadlines that she said were better suited for small, rural counties than a large, dense one like Palm Beach.
"We didn't anticipate that we would have to run 100 percent of our ballots through these old machines," Bucher said. "We anticipated that we would have a pretty quiet midterm election, as we usually do."
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No doubt that Soros sent a technician in there to “Re-calibrate” those machines.
GOP claps hands.
And in the panhandle, where a tremendous hurricane recently struck, they wrapped up their election count a week ago.
Yeah overheating machine my white ass..what they mean is, they counted the votes, not enough votes to help Gillum or Nelson win, so they “Overheated” the machine so they can count the votes again til the “Right” person comes up on top
Wait a minute. Aren’t they supposed to be set up to be able to tabulate all the ballots in one day - Election Day?
How does running a recount (that takes 3 days) overtax the machines?
The machines are ‘working’ as intended. They do what they’re programmed to do. The wiseguys and the election fixers in the old mafia would have been envious of the tools available today to get the outcomes they wanted. So easy and never any vulnerability to punishment.
It’s the Broward County political machine that is overheated.
“We anticipated that we would have a pretty quiet midterm election, as we usually do.”
Sounds like they underestimated the amount of fraud they needed.
Crank up the air conditioning.
Open the covers on the machines that will not prevent them from functioning.
....for anyone around here who can speak Democrat-that means they have been able to cool off the machines by just simply having them not count the Republican ballots.
Which happens to be just fine for the DC Uniparty
The Federal Judge in Tallahassee is a Obama Appointee in 2009 !
Walker !
How did Scott allow to be out lawyered .
He is a lawyer .
His rulings will be a disaster .
Scott better have the Appeals written or straight to Supreme court .
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