Are we done with Florida? ????

[Karenca]

This article is from today's AOL news. I'm confused...does this mean we are NOT counting Florida?..I hope not


Updated: 06:30 PM EST
Fla. Panel Approves 2004 Election Results
By BRENT KALLESTAD, AP

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - It was a wish come true Sunday for Florida's elections officials: no cameras, few questions and a clear decision.

Unlike four years ago, when scores of television satellite trucks and hundreds of reporters camped outside the Capitol, the state canvassing board quietly certified the results of the Nov. 2 general election, in which President Bush captured the state's 27 electoral votes by a comfortable margin.

"I think everyone is glad the election has come and gone," Secretary of State Glenda Hood said.

But referring to a handful of staffers and a couple of reporters observing the certification, she added, "It's a little lonesome."

Things were so routine Sunday that the canvassing board members who voted, Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Bronson, called in from home with their approval.

The third member, Attorney General Charlie Crist, didn't take part. Only two votes were needed.

When the canvassing board met in 2000, then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris prematurely declared Bush the winner. But it was a nearly a month later before the U.S. Supreme Court certified Bush's 537-vote victory margin over Democrat Al Gore in Florida to finally settle the outcome after weeks of recounts and legal wrangling.

This time Bush won Florida by nearly 381,000 votes over Sen. John Kerry.

[momzno1]

1. they hope that if they say it enough it will become true

Black Box Voting said they are investigating florida. They have a representative in Florida right now. They are iniating a citizens hand recount of the state.

[Karenca]

3. wheeww!

Thanks...they did say it alot, it's been repeated about 5 times on AOL news today.
Thanks so much....I feel alot better now.

[Kralizec]

2. I think that means they have finished counting all

the ballots from the election. Challenges and the such... I don't think those are resolved. Am I wrong, anyone?

[ailsagirl]

5. As Bev Harris said

BREAKING -- SATURDAY NOV 13 2004: Black Box Voting has launched a fraud audit into Florida. Three investigators (Bev Harris, Andy Stephenson, and Kathleen Wynne) are in Florida right now. We will initiate hand counts on selected counties that have not fully complied with our Nov. 2 Freedom of Information request by Monday (Diebold counties) or Tuesday (other counties).

http://www.blackboxvoting.org

[buzzard]

17. Fraud audit not the same as recount

[bullimiami]

4. i hope we ask for an audit now

i think the optical scan ballots are going to turn up a lot of shenanigans.

[ailsagirl]

6. Yes, that's where most of the problems occurred, apparently

[politicasista]

7. You think so?

Will it expose something?

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. It's going to expose that nobody

in Florida can get the same total twice.

Despite spending millions on equipment that Glenda and Jeb assured us was totally reliable.

[ahyums]

10. isn't a citizen's count though only the same as what the papers did post

2000? i.e not an official challenge, just a 'for information purposes only' effort. So even if there were widespread irregularities if the election is not contested nothing could be done about them?

[ParanoidPat]

12. First clue, look at all the numbers for undercounts in the Presidential,,,

.......race.

How hard do you think it is for an election official or poll worker to look at the sign in book for your party affiliation and then hand you the wrong pen to mark your ballot?

Expect many votes to have been lost by this method. But those are only the start.

It wasn't a conspiracy, it was an agenda!

[stella2cat]

15. check out this under/over vote analysis & report

an analysis and report of under/over votes in FL that was done in 2003 by a man named Paul Craft. It will be something to compare to when they fork over the 2004 under/over counts

http://election.dos.state.fl.us/reports/pdf/03OverUnder...

[Dr Fate]

8. Have the "glitches & irregularites" been fully investigated & reformed?

If not, then we are not done.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. Florida just posted new totals for the General Election

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/DetailRpt.Asp?ELECTIONDAT...

See here for more details:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[burn the bush]

13. it means that that is the official count

they can't be contested until they give us a total of what they say the countis. Then we have 10 days to request a recount.

[toska]

16. Now the fun begins

If the lawsuits and recounts don't start flying now we are all screwed. Gore was criticized for challenging before certification, which slowed down the counting (if you can call it that) and reduced the time for the recount.

Let's just hope that somebody with a recount fund steps up in Florida. We've given to Ohio and NH, the least Kerry can do is contest Florida.

[chomskysright]

14. I just sent to the Tallahassee paper

I sent it to the weblog and to the editors. Let's see what they do.

Anyone else want to help me tackle the FL newspapers or does anyone know what has been done so far?

marsha hammond, phd: licensed psychologist: [e-mail]...over in Asheville, NC



Your election was hacked and here's how: where ya been Floridians? we been missing you in cyberspace (this from marsha hammond, phd, up in Atlanta and Asheville: [e-mail] : come to be back channel if you want me to download my files to you re: incidents in FL):

lots of action out there and nothing here. should you desire to become informed, here we go:

(bet on it: they're talking about how they're glad to be done: see: )

Updated: 06:30 PM EST
Fla. Panel Approves 2004 Election Results
By BRENT KALLESTAD, AP

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - It was a wish come true Sunday for Florida's elections officials: no cameras, few questions and a clear decision.

Unlike four years ago, when scores of television satellite trucks and hundreds of reporters camped outside the Capitol, the state canvassing board quietly certified the results of the Nov. 2 general election, in which President Bush captured the state's 27 electoral votes by a comfortable margin....."

"I think everyone is glad the election has come and gone," Secretary of State Glenda Hood said.

DON'T BELIEVE IT FOR A MINUTE!


1. Zogby report on FL malfeasance: http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=10398

2. you want to see some of the voting irregularities ( in FL so you can ask for a recount like OH is doing? 2 sites that I know of so far (DOZENs for FL):


https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapCounty&... (sort it by your own state)

http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction.asp


3. And the FL vote has been changed (from 11.3 to today) and a marvel: none of the percentages have changed. Amazing FL BOE! the way they do work is wonderous:

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=10398


4. And one of your own refuses to throw in the towel re: his Congressional race. Go here and look at the lowdown re: some bits of how your election was hacked:

http://www.JeffFisherforCongress.com


5. And if you have the smoking gun information you can make yourself a cool 100 grand (this is no joke):

"Justice Through Music" <[e-mail] >



6. here are the people moving your information around: go here for a rich source of information you'll never read in the newspapers:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...


7. a few more dollars are needed for that OH recount and go here to contribute (then we need to start you an account in a similar manner): http://www.votecobb.org /


8. Here is an overall synopsis as of about 6 p.m. today, Sunday, November 14th: http://www.nov2truth.org /

GET ON BOARD FLORIDIANS: WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU!!