What's going on in Lake County is fishy...

[nyccitizen]

Toobin just pointed it out on CNN. This is NOT how it's supposed to done. Waiting until all the votes are in and then releasing them is what happens in dirty elections, so they can figure out the result before the public and change the results.

Unsure who this will benefit but it's fishy and if this is as close as it seems there will be questions to answer tomorrow in Lake County.

[DB1]

1. I think the voting was so heavy they stayed open longer. Plus tey are CST not EST

[faithfulcitizen]

26. Thank you for being smart! Think about it...

If you were an AA in Indiana of all places, in a Chicago suburb, and your vote FINALLY MATTERED in a dem primary! They are showing up in droves. In Indy, some dem poll workers were panicking about not having enough ballots. People were saying they passed out more dem ballots in the 1st hour in polling than the whole day in 2004 election. That's impressive.

[OzarkDem]

2. Strange indeed

[Patsy Stone]

3. MSNBC said

that Bloomington/IU is still out too.

[Thrill]

8. Another big college town

[Patsy Stone]

14. Monroe County is only 53% reported.

Let's see what happens.

[L. Coyote]

42. Obama will pick up another 1,000 margin there.

[mckeown1128]

4. Are you as concerned about Union county...

or is this only in counties that Obama is expected to win?

[Boz]

5. They ran out of Ballots, Court order kept some polling places open

[Coexist]

10. yes for an extra hour, CST.

[uponit7771]

37. NICE!!!

[smalll]

6. "Waiting until all the votes are in and then releasing them" -- it's the Mugabe way!

Comrade Bob would be so proud. :shrug:

[RainDog]

13. since both of these areas are Obama counties

and since both had record turn out, your "suspicions" are misplaced. if Obama wanted to steal the election, why would he want to withhold two of his STRONGEST areas?

If anyone is trying to mess with this election, Evan wanna-be-vp Bayh would be a much likelier candidate for that.

[Mojambo]

7. Could be fishy or could just be that they absolutely got swamped.

We'll have to wait and see.

[nyccitizen]

15. They could still be releasing votes even if they were swamped...

They don't have to hold all the votes until the counting is done. I am an Obama supporter but if Lake County puts him over the top the Clinton campaign will cry foul because of how this was carried out, and you just KNOW the media will run with a possible election fraud meme, which is the last thing Obama needs after what should be a deal-closing night.

[GregD]

9. Smells like Franklin County, OH?

Wasn't that one of the dirty counties in Ohio 2004?

[Guaranteed]

11. It is, but the result doesn't matter. Too bad they did that- it's

just going to make it look bad.

[4themind]

12. I thought I read that they're also counting the provisional ballots

11,000 of them, right now (

[prolesunited]

16. Yes, they are

They normally don't the night of the election, but since it's so close and will make the difference in the state, they are holding out.

[Muttocracy]

22. absentee I think (doubt there are that many provisional?) nt

[redsoxrudy]

23. not the provisional ballots

they are counting the absentee ballots.

[thevoiceofreason]

17. Federal Judge ordered polls open til much later.

[woolldog]

18. Lighten up. The black counties always come in late.

[nyccitizen]

27. This isn't "late". They are withholding votes that have already been tallied.

I am an Obama supporter but this is unacceptable. The Mayor of Gary is a big Obama supporter and this is going to be called into question by the media if he wins.

Here come the results...

[woolldog]

35. they always report late, even in the GE.

[TahitiNut]

19. Chuck Todd: "Oh lord!"

As Keith read the letter from the mayor of Gary saying the "overwhelming" turnout for Obama was "something for the world to watch."

[spanone]

25. i heard that....

[faithfulcitizen]

30. I'm so proud of them right now! They know their GOTV effort was amazing.

[Exultant Democracy]

20. Time Zones are not fishy but I guess if Obama wins now then "'That won't count either."

[zulchzulu]

21. Let's rewind to the New York primary where 0% went for Obama in Harlem

I don't think many Clinton supporters were interested in that...

Let's wait and see on Lake County.

Hell, I have a beamable Palm Pilot. I could crack the machines in 12 seconds.

[nyccitizen]

24. Who is the idiot responsible for this?

If Obama wins it's going to be called fishy because some moron decided to withhold decisive vote tallies. Someone deserves to be fired or run out of office for this.

[karynnj]

31. Except Obama did not need to win Indiana

Had Indiana come in at 4%, the difference without ANY Lake county and half of Monroe (IU) and Tippecanoe(Purdue) - in conjuction with the NC win - it would have been enough.

This is likely to be too close to call until provincial votes are counted. (Remember there is the Limbaugh effect that is not the measurable - without which Obama would have a clear win.

[Marie26]

45. Rudy Clark, Gary mayor, Lake County elections chairman, obama fan.

He's publically said that his county could give Obama an upset victory in IN, & maybe he intends to deliver on that promise. But I agree that it's unnecessary - Clinton is giving all the signs of stopping her campaign & supporting Obama for the nominee. It's basically over. At least let her have her victory in IN; she deserves it.

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

28. 28 percent Lake County in - O gains to within 20K votes w 75/25

Breaking via CNN.

[newmajority]

29. Latest Numbers from MSNBC

91% reporting, approximately 19,000 vote lead for Hillary.

Lake County (Gary) still to come.

[Frank Booth]

32. Evan Bayh's proven himself to be scum. Let's hope it's not close enough to fuck with.

Go Barack!

[onenote]

33. what's the deal with union county? No results there either.

And its a 98.% white county....

[Frank Booth]

34. This Hammond, IN mayor (HRC supporter) looks nervous as hell.

He says he reported his town's votes hours ago and now they're just filtering in.

Something very strange going on.

This is the bluest county in the state.

If Obama doesn't get 65% of Lake County, it's totally fucked.

[qanda]

36. I guess something fishy is going on in Union too

They haven't reported anything either.

[uponit7771]

38. FAUX news analyst looks like they were told Bush was caught in the bathroom with a naked boy

[mnhtnbb]

39. If you go on CNN website, click county results for IN, you can see

that other counties up and down the state in same time zone have all reported.

This is, indeed, fishy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. 28% are in

sorry

[L. Coyote]

41. Absentee ballots are being counted, and there were a lot of early voters.

WHY. Obama supporters!!

[Marie26]

43. 55% in now: Obama 65%, Clinton 35% nt

[MarjorieG]

44. Verifying purged voters in Gary? Or do they check within 10 days?

I think Obama would have won more, had not for the purging (much of it in Gary) and ID law.

[Marie26]

46. The problem is the opposite

CLINTON votes aren't showing up from the rest of the county, just Gary.

[jefferson_dem]

47. I agree. It looks fishy at least. Mayor Clay from Gary sounds like an idiot.

n/t

[mkultra]

48. no worries

your candidate won so im sure well hear the last of it.