BBV: Atlantis candidate asks for recount

[GregD]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/local_news_0425a83fb14f028700f3.html

Ya'all are gonna love this one. I'm about to bust my gut thinking about it. Just fills me with joy to share it... Makes me feel like the entire past 9 months have been vindicated in one single election.

Florida - again...
LaPore - as always...

It's a city council race between a guy named Eric Mangione and incumbent Lester Fields. Mangione lost by 4 votes, which was a landslide - he lost a race in '94 by 1 vote. Damn small town politics!

There are 42 undervotes... All but one of those undervotes were on paperless e-voting systems... One undervote was on paper - an absentee vote.

Ruht roh...

To comply with state law, they performed a recount of the electronic ballots. The totals didn't change. They are left with the absentee ballot. That lonely, single, undervoted absentee ballot.

The canvassing board will look at it (giggle) to see if there are any markings that indicate a clear choice by the voter for a candidate.

Uhhh, where have we heard this one before? The recount is the same? It's a miracle!

Mangione - wasn't going to ask for a recount, went and played tennis instead. Weather good down there at the moment?

He changed his mind after several friends called Thursday.

Imagine them (LePore and friends) all standing around inspecting that one absentee ballot for stray marks and calling it a recount. Then what do they do about the other 41 e-votes in cyberspace?

I can't wait to see what happens next on this one. This is gonna be great. LePore has got to just rolling over and over considering retirement or a heavy dose of valium. And where is Hood with her perfect voting systems that have never failed her voters?



Here was the earlier story:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/local_news_04f47dd507a1e0d90042.html

[Stephanie]

1. This happened with her in 2002 - mayoral candidate Danciu sued

I'm not sure if that's the right spelling. Rebecca Mercuri has it at her site. Danciu lost, he didn't trust the machines, he asked to have the software examined. Le Pore argued that opening up the machines would void her warranty. The judge ruled with LePore.

[fearnobush]

2. Any person, Any State that supports BBV with no paper trail is

obviously interested in stealing elections!!!! people this is the Democratic wedge issue, and its not even a wedge, it's real and will never change until we scream loud enough that if we cannot have paper trails, then Diebold etc should not be able to give you a receipt when you use one of their ATM machines?

[tkmorris]

3. Funny aint it?

Yeah we'd love to examine what actually happened in the election but doing that would void our warranty.

The whole idea that someone can patent the method for accepting, compiling, and counting votes, and further keep the process a secret not only from election supervisors but the voters themselves, well that's just funny.

Aint it funny? Are you laughing?

Well aren't you?

Ah, hell.

[xchrom]

4. theft 04

these are the practise runs.

[leftchick]

5. Lou Dobbs needs to get that Hood hag back on his show!

Good lordy she was so damn smug last week about her "perfect voting machines"! Ha Ha! Lou, make her eat her words!

[leftchick]

6. kick

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