Banana Republic

Then there is Gertrude Walker, the 32-year-veteran election supervisor, who has spent much of the last two weeks explaining why her office completely botched the count. She admitted that her office had acted in “haste” in issuing election results, and that “mistakes were made.” Among her mistakes was failing to count 40 of the 94 precincts under her jurisdiction on Election Night — and then counting the other 54 twice. Indeed. On Friday, her office announced it had “discovered” 304 additional early votes left in a box. None had been counted.

Walker has a history of abetting or ignoring sloppy election procedures. In 2003, a state-appointed task force of six election experts found that Mariam Oliphant, the then–Supervisor of Elections, was incapable of running her office and counting votes correctly. Among other problems, she had hired a homeless man who refused to count certain ballots.

Is this some small jurisdiction in another continent?  Some backward nation without competent, ethical people to run elections?

Close.  It's St. Lucie County in Florida, where Allen West, not unreasonably under the circumstances, is contesting the vote.

Irrespective of your politics - don't you think that we should be able to do better in these United States?

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[Fred2]

Well, we have DOZENS and dozens of electoral districts in Philly and Chicago and Cleveland where there was not ONE Romney vote ...not a single one. 100% for the Big O. Uhm , not ONE cretin checked the wrong box. Really?

Seriously, since this doesn't affect the greater election, even if they all broke 50/50, you'd think someone (Hello Justice Dept? Anyone? )would look into this because EVEN the soviets of my youth started blushing after 97-98%.

And that's that's just the tippy top of the over the top electoral fraud we saw.

I don't mind electoral game - busing in your supporters to the voting stations -

But the evidence of out and out organized fraud is rampant & obvious and yet one ONE MSM reporter wants to touch it. Nevermind FBI., Justice, etc....

Well to the banana republic!

[jammen]

"Irrespective of your politics - don't you think that we should be able to do better in these United States?"

Al Gore agrees.

[Peg]

At least Al Gore had an in depth review. The news consortium agreed: he lost.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html

[jammen]

"An initial recount of some early ballots in St. Lucie gave West a slight bump. His campaign fought for a fuller recount, and received it, but it only improved Murphy's margin of victory. He won by more than 2,000 votes."

Let's have more recounts.

[Peg]

As usual, it appears that you didn't read my post.

Do you think it's appropriate to not count votes when they are supposed to be counted?

Do you think it's appropriate to count the same votes more than once?

Do you think it's appropriate to lose a box of votes?

I know it's tough to get your mind around this, jammen. But had West won under these circumstances, would you think that no investigation was necessary? Or do your actions depend upon whether your person won or not?