Tempers flare in Sarasota election office - Fox TV

[Sancho]

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=1474082&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

There was a video on the 10PM news that was on-line, with the election supervisor yelling at observers. The video may have been taken down 30 minutes after it was up. I don't know if anyone caught it.

Jennings has filed a lawsuit.

[GainesT1958]

1. Proving yet again...

Those folks in Florida really know how to steal--I mean run--an election!:eyes:

Fitting that it's in Cruella's district...

B-)

[benddem]

2. Jennings is doomed

the election supervisor said a 13% undercount is not unusual?????

[Judi Lynn]

3. Right. They also said one in seven voters. Who could EVEN believe that? n/t

[olddad56]

7. isn't one in seven about 13%?

[Judi Lynn]

9. I assume so. The other reference seemed more concrete to my

feeble, simple, backward mind, so I added it, in case there are others who might find it makes a more vivid picture.

You're right to point this out.

[pacalo]

6. And get this...

"Some, including Dent, have attributed it to the number of negative advertisements used by both sides in the race, which often turns voters off."

Jennings Campaign Files Suit

Isn't it presumptuous of them to claim they know what the voters were thinking? When there are 18,000 so-called undervotes, there's problem, Houston!

Re-counts should be open to the media & to representatives of both parties.

[aggiesal]

8. How can you recount?

Besides the fact that these machines do not produce a paper trial,
Prince Jeb made it illegal in Florida to use any paper ballot to compare
it against the e-voting results. Once a paper ballot is scanned through
an e-voting machine or some ROV working transfers the paper ballot into
a touch screen voting machine, you might as well shred the paper ballot.
So all they can use is the eletronic ballot box.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Great article. Dent is nasty enough, and retarded enough to imagine

she should get by with offering the reason for the unnatural level of undercounts as being a reaction to the negative campaigns. She should be slapped down soundly. My God.

Why anyone should treat such a serious occassion with such contempt is beyond my understanding. These Republicans can't possible go far enough away.

Thanks for the link.

[Zan_of_Texas]

11. Well, it's unusual, when the very same race produces a 1% undercount

the next county over.

It's only a 13% undervote in the county that tends Dem.

This contest stinks to high heaven. Dent knew it was going to undercount, too; she warned pollworkers to remind voters to check to make sure they voted in that race.

She is full of B.S.

[bleever]

4. It's still up at this moment.

Looks like a mess alright.

[against all enemies]

5. I heard 19,000 ballots without a vote for Rep.

And there is no paper record. The election should be recast.

[Scurrilous]

12. Voting recount begins with a lawsuit

<snip>

"With nearly 18,400 votes lost or uncast in a hot congressional race, elections officials began a recount Monday in five counties and promised a fair examination of the voting machines -- only to have a lawsuit filed and questions of partisan bias crop up by day's end.

The campaign of Democrat Christine Jennings, who trails Republican Vern Buchanan by only 373 votes, voiced concerns about the GOP ties of a computer expert hired by the state to check the touchscreen voting machines in Sarasota County.

Meanwhile, the campaign filed a lawsuit Monday aimed at making sure all of the voting systems and documents remain in their Election Day state.

The computer expert, professor Alec Yasinsac of Florida State University, is a registered Republican who actively supported GOP governor candidate Tom Gallagher this year and loudly protested Democratic tactics in the disputed presidential recount in 2000.

Yasinsac, who has worked for the National Science Foundation and the Defense Department, told The Miami Herald by e-mail: "I would ask that you reserve judgment until I announce our team. I am confident that the professional credentials and balanced viewpoints will speak for themselves." He also acknowledged that he has "been active in party activities."

<snip>

"Here's what he told the Tallahassee Democrat on Dec. 3, 2000, while wearing a "Bush Won" sign on the steps of the Florida Supreme Court: "I'll never be a passive political participant again." It was a week before the case was decided."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16005820.htm