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Showing Original Post only (View all)Baltimore’s Election Results Are Decertified as State Investigation Is Launched [View all]
Source: Truthdig by Emma Niles
Although Baltimores primary was held weeks ago, Marylands Board of Elections announced Thursday that it was rescinding certification of the election results. The Baltimore Sun reports:
Linda H. Lamone, the administrator of the State Board of Elections, said officials became concerned when city officials found 80 provisional ballots that had not been analyzed, and an unusually high discrepancy between the number of voters who checked in at polling places and the number of ballots cast. The number of ballots cast at the polls was higher than the number of check-ins at the polls, she said.
Lamone said state officials were working to determine the exact size of the problem. She expected the investigation to stretch into next week. Baltimore City was not able to investigate and resolve these issues to our satisfaction, Lamone said. We are doing a precinct-level review. We are doing this in fairness to the candidates and the voters.
Baltimores news comes at a time when voters around the country are alleging election fraud, and activists within the city have been voicing concerns about the election for months. Eight data files went missing for about a day after the election, and some polling precincts opened late, The Baltimore Sun reports, adding that thirty-four released felonseligible to vote under a new lawalso received a Board of Elections letter before the election erroneously telling them they might not be able to vote.
Read more: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/baltimores_election_results_to_be_decertified_state_20160513
Linda H. Lamone, the administrator of the State Board of Elections, said officials became concerned when city officials found 80 provisional ballots that had not been analyzed, and an unusually high discrepancy between the number of voters who checked in at polling places and the number of ballots cast. The number of ballots cast at the polls was higher than the number of check-ins at the polls, she said.
Lamone said state officials were working to determine the exact size of the problem. She expected the investigation to stretch into next week. Baltimore City was not able to investigate and resolve these issues to our satisfaction, Lamone said. We are doing a precinct-level review. We are doing this in fairness to the candidates and the voters.
Baltimores news comes at a time when voters around the country are alleging election fraud, and activists within the city have been voicing concerns about the election for months. Eight data files went missing for about a day after the election, and some polling precincts opened late, The Baltimore Sun reports, adding that thirty-four released felonseligible to vote under a new lawalso received a Board of Elections letter before the election erroneously telling them they might not be able to vote.
Read more: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/baltimores_election_results_to_be_decertified_state_20160513
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kadaholo
May 2016
OP
Restroom fraud -- similarly not a problem until Republicans mucked it up with useless laws. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2016
#21
I agree. Low tech, 100% effective. Do it like they do in Africa: dip it into an ink bottle.
marble falls
May 2016
#31
Because we are a much larger country with 50 states with different standards. n/t
pnwmom
May 2016
#7
It isn't an argument. I'm not justifying it. I'm pointing to its factual existence.
pnwmom
May 2016
#72
In 2009, Democrats in DC had an opportunity to protect our elections and voting rights.
Scuba
May 2016
#80
In 2010 and 2014 Democrats had an opportunity to vote in elections and they mostly passed.
L. Coyote
May 2016
#83
"It's up to politicians to give voters a reason to go to the polls." is bullshit.
L. Coyote
May 2016
#85
Long before that. Back in the 1800's the ballot boxes used to get lost on the way to the
LiberalArkie
May 2016
#12
The electronic machines just moved the dishonesty to a different format. Honest
LiberalArkie
May 2016
#16
NY alone, had a 12 pt. deviation from exit polling, where more than 2 is fraud, by U.S. standards.
ViseGrip
May 2016
#30
HUGE! So...all the 'intel alphas' in that city CIA, DEA, etc.,thought they could get away with this?
ViseGrip
May 2016
#10
Worse! We send our military to countries with anything over 2pts in exit polling deviation.
ViseGrip
May 2016
#32
I wonder if counting the provisional ballots (when they should have been scrutinized first)-
Rosa Luxemburg
May 2016
#17
No. It is a 2/3 black city. Republicans favor stealing black votes, part of the racism.
L. Coyote
May 2016
#26
You're trying really hard to say the Dems are rigging the primaries and "screwing things up"
L. Coyote
May 2016
#42
Dirty tricks and propaganda combined, part of the new front in voter suppression.
L. Coyote
May 2016
#29
Paper ballots will not fix the problem. Election Fraud is a political tradition. See the link.
Agnosticsherbet
May 2016
#52