Allen West fights on amid vote-recount mayhem
Then there is Gertrude Walker, the 32-year-veteran election supervisor of St. Lucie County, 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.
But Walker wasn’t available for comment. She has been hospitalized for unknown reasons.
The news was one reason that Florida’s secretary of state has dispatched a team of experts to audit St. Lucie’s procedures. The St. Lucie Election Canvassing Board voted to approve a complete recount of all the early ballots. It began the recount on Saturday but stopped it at 8 p.m. because the county building’s security system was set to be switched on later that night. Some people complained that the alarms have been switched off in the past to allow county business to continue after hours, but their complaints were ignored. The recount resumed on Sunday morning, but it missed the noon deadline to submit the county’s final returns to Florida’s secretary of state.
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jake-the-goose on November 19, 2012 at 1:09 PM
God damn the Rs. I hate them more than Obama and his fools, all who brung him, twice.
She’s sick in the head and a dummy in the position. How do such people make it there? You know how.
The man/mensch should fight like the leftists do in Minnesota, until he wins, or the last vote is accounted for.
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 1:12 PM
Here is the superintelligent Gertrude Walker
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I’m beginning to favor the blue ink stained finger method.
a capella on November 19, 2012 at 1:19 PM
The world’s biggest mess and fraud.
Showing just any ID will not do. Any illegal alien can get a driver’s lic. for ex.
It’s a huge clusterfark, all of it.
However, West should fight as the leftists do.
May all the rightists who harmed him go straight to hell/Hell.
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 1:24 PM
… and the Democrats will still insist that there’s no evidence of voter fraud!
ITguy on November 19, 2012 at 1:26 PM
Unimpressive lost, sir. Where were the complaints about irregularities when you won?
Election’s over dunce. Go be a fat old man on your little girl’s motorcycle.
No real Christian would wish damnation on somebody over politics. You’re a fraud.
Capitalist Hog on November 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM
What makes us so certain that Romney didn’t win the election in a landslide of legitimate votes and that the Democrat fraud votes are accounting for a huge percentage of the overall Democrat votes? Is that a reality that would be too scary to deal with? I guess it would mean war but I can’t think of a more righteous reason to go to war.
Buddahpundit on November 19, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Capitalist Hog on November 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM
No, I’m not, you blind one.
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM
petefrt on November 19, 2012 at 1:36 PM
I have the same question. Consider the cases where voters touched a touch screen for Romney and they saw it come up as a vote for Obama. How many times did it happen without the voter noticing? What if that type of “switch” was also going on in ballot reading machines where the voter never really knows if their ballot was counted properly?
That type of vote switching is even more damaging than individual fraudulent votes, becuase it gives one to the Democrat at the same time that it takes one away from the Republican. Not only does it help the Democrat win, but it leads to stories about “lower Republican turnout”.
If Gertrude Walker can get away with fraud in Allen West’s district, how do we know that fraud was limited to only her jurisdiction? It’s much more likely that this is the tip of the iceberg.
If fraud made a West win look like a loss in his district, how do we know that fraud didn’t make a Romney win look like a loss in Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevade, Wisconsin, etc.?
ITguy on November 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM
According to your interpretation, no one is a ‘real’ Christian bcs mankind is imperfect.
Schaden is very passionate about the founding principles.
As am I.
People who do evil I thought were bound for hell.
I’m tempted to wish damnation on these awful people.
I guess according to you I’m not a Christian.
Badger40 on November 19, 2012 at 1:51 PM
I’d really like to hear more about these certain districts in battleground states where the stakes were really high that voted 108% for Obama, or 100% or in the high 90s.
I just find that extremely unlikely.
This is not a coincidence or a statement that everyone loves Obama.
This is inviting of a thorough investigation & what I am hearing are f@#$ing crickets.
Damn these treasonous ba$tard$ to hell.
That was just for you Hog.
Badger40 on November 19, 2012 at 1:54 PM
I smell a rat in St Lucie county..I hope Allen West gets the court to demand a full recount..Good luck Allen West..
Dire Straits on November 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM
The recount on Saturday and Sunday was overseen by a Republican canvassing board member since Walker was in the hospital. So unless the Republican is in on “fix” too, that undercuts a lot of Fund’s complaints.
AngusMc on November 19, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Nice one.
The most important aspect of Christianity is eternal life, right? That’s the point of salvation, no?
He mocks the most sacred aspect of a religion to make political points. That’s BS. I’m sure that Jesus himself would put that pretty high on the chart of no-nos.
I love how you’re so forgiving of Christian liars and phonies but so quick to castigate others.
Join the fraud. Listen to more Rage with Paul Ryan.
Capitalist Hog on November 19, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Allen West says:
La-la-la-la. I can’t hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
Capitalist Hog on November 19, 2012 at 2:09 PM
I was disturbed to hear early reports that there was a memory card involved that sounded like it was portable. Is this common? My memory card for my camera is tiny, is this a big board that is not easy to switch out in someone’s pocket? I don’t like the memory card with the votes on it traveling around, or out of the machine at all. No mention in the Fund article whether the memory card was still the issue, I thought at the end of the night, election night, that memory card had been lost and then it was found, and when those votes were added in, West fell way behind. I don’t like uncounted ballots found “in a box.” The randomness of mistakes is never in republican’s favor, that is why we are always suspicious.
I do not know if there is a memory card involved where I vote, we fill in the bubble and it is read by the machine and you can generate a piece of paper that looks like a sales reciept for each precinct. They do it on the hour actually to be upfront about it. It appears in my precinct, that the only way to cheat would be to feed extra ballots into the machine for your candidate. But I don’t know what happens after that.
When they certify the election, what happens after that if the discover a really big mistake?
Fleuries on November 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Why hasn’t anyone asked the obvious question.
Obama’s vote total over Romney was razor thin in Florida. What was it, like less than 10,000 votes or something?
If there’s this much blatant Democrat voter fraud in the West race, whose to say this hasn’t happened statewide in the prez race?
ericdondero on November 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM
But you didn’t did you? See the difference? If you don’t it’s only because you’re so deeply biased.
For you politics is more important than being honest to your savior. You prefer to satiate your ego’s needs rather than live up to your Lord’s hopes for mankind.
Way to go. Give me a J. Give me an E.
Capitalist Hog on November 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM
73,189
Capitalist Hog on November 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Racist
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 2:18 PM
Neither would a true Scotsman.
Dipwad.
Mimzey on November 19, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Sadly, West was one of the newbies who were given the schmooze treatment from House leadership and so voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011, i.e. the fiscal cliff maker.
In return for West taking their side, the GOP did a good job re writing his district, How does one choose whom to sacrifice? He Who Was Not To Be Sacrificed got quality time with the Romney bunch
Brings to mind the former rep Thaddeus McCotter, who went into his schmooze session, came out and told the press (approximate words from my memory of watching him live) the Tea Party should grow up and the GOP should shut up.
or vice versa, hard to track down that quote now that T McCotter has been removed from the herd by a nearly totally fraudulent set of petition signatures. Did anyone give him a helping hand down the ladder?
I hope West fights to the end. The conservative side of voters is going to need someone to trust when the economic collapse shakes out.
IMHO Bachmann was very right about the ‘fiscal cliff’ bill which was set up on the assumption there either would be another stalemated Congress – so the GOP could wring it’s clean hands and cry out it was being forced to do unconservative acts, or the Congress would swing DEM so it wouldn’t matter what was in the bill anymore
And they got to beat down the Tea Party, which is even more important
I want West to fight to the last vote. We need to see someone who is not a quitter
entagor on November 19, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Rush is talking about this now and has the same mind-set I do about West keeping on with the recount.
IMO, West deserves a honest(if that is even possible anymore here) to see if he actually won/lost!
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letget on November 19, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Why didn’t they finish the recount Saturday night..?
d1carter on November 19, 2012 at 2:57 PM
Great name and summary. And what we got in Florida was after those party elite pushed He Who Was Not To Be Sacrificed, Mack lost the election to Bill Nelson.
As a bonus they gerrymandered West.
They’re a disgusting bunch.
I hope West fights. People mocked Katherine Harris when she was FL’s Secretary of State, but she had guts to make sure things were done correctly and legally.
Walker is pitiful. Why is she in the hospital? Is she really ill or ducking the consequences of her incompetence and what appears to be corruption?
INC on November 19, 2012 at 3:11 PM
They dilly-dallied around. The excuse I heard was that they had to quit at 10 p.m. due to an automatic alarm setting at the mall at which they were counting.
Absolutely implausible.
INC on November 19, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Some are working on their own one way tickets
warning, Jesus quote –
45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke 11 –
How many times have people tried to destroy West, for what? Except for not being owned, what harm did he to them?
entagor on November 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Oh look, everyone, a new hate-filled, racist, atheist, anti-Christian dirtbag troll in our midst.
Right Mover on November 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM
is West ahead in any scenario?
Can.I.be.in.the.middle on November 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM
He speaks the truth.
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Sure
Schadenfreude on November 19, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Because any of us who actually suspect or suggest voter fraud are treated with the same dismissive disdain as birthers.
We’re supposed to trust the Democrats to operate honorably, because that’s the collegial, civil way to think.
Right Mover on November 19, 2012 at 3:55 PM
If Romney had challenged the national vote count as aggressively as West, substantial fraud would have be uncovered.
Perhaps not enough to win, but enough to demonstrate how crooked the other side is.
Which is always a useful lesson.
profitsbeard on November 19, 2012 at 5:26 PM