Reports on the ground are that over 32k votes were recounted today in 12 hours which finished around 9PM, but for some reason the remaining 304 votes couldn’t be completed in 2 hours. Officials are saying an automatic alarm is set at 11PM and they are forcing everyone to leave and come back in the morning at 8AM to finish the recount. The deadline is tomorrow noon.

Funny thing is this alarm wasn’t an issue on election night, says Gary Galiano:

I asked, how is the [alarm] being automatically set, when you guys were here until 2 am on election night…. Their response to me.. We are closing. Sheriff then ask me leave

This certainly smells fishy and hopefully people will stand guard tonight to ensure the building is secured and no one enters until 8AM tomorrow morning.




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Jay
Jay

Richard J. Daley was unavailable for comment.

SuzeTX
SuzeTX

Dont just sit there posting comments; call and email:

rick.scott@eog.myforida.com

Executive Office of Governor Rick Scott

400 S Monroe St

Tallahassee, FL 32399

(850) 488-7146

Ken Detzner FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE

850.245.6524

DOS.SecretaryofState@DOS.MyFlorida.com

John Boynton DEPUTY SECRETARY

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, CORPORATIONS AND ELECTIONS

850.245.6524

John.Boynton@DOS.MyFlorida.com

SuzeTX
SuzeTX

Don't just sit there posting comments; get busy:

rick.scott@eog.myforida.com

Executive Office of Governor Rick Scott

400 S Monroe St

Tallahassee, FL 32399

(850) 488-7146

Ken Detzner FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE

850.245.6524

DOS.SecretaryofState@DOS.MyFlorida.com

John Boynton DEPUTY SECRETARY

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, CORPORATIONS AND ELECTIONS

850.245.6524

John.Boynton@DOS.MyFlorida.com

CardiLover
CardiLover

And hoping that everyone LEFT the building.

Steve B
Steve B

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A noon deadline has passed to report new returns in the race between Democrat Patrick Murphy and Republican U.S. Rep. Allen West.

Officials in St. Lucie County, where a recount was being conducted, made no announcement of their findings.

Under state law, unless they have received an emergency exemption from the state, unofficial results filed last week will be certified.

Those results showed Murphy the winner in the race by about 1,900 votes.

Rshill7
Rshill7

West attorneys going to back to court for an extension due to that last memory card glitch. It isn't over.

Rocco11
Rocco11

The Left has our side navel gazing about reaching across the aisle, and appealing to women, and Hispanics while they're busy stealing elections. Wake up people, there's a communist in the White House....

marketcomp
marketcomp

I just heard that Murphy is the winner:(!

Wolfie
Wolfie

Hope that's not true. :-(

marketcomp
marketcomp

I hope so to, Wolfie!

Wolfie
Wolfie

Nothing to be sorry for. :-)

Wolfie
Wolfie

Drudge has nothing about the result yet, where did you hear your news?

dave kenny
dave kenny

This reads like an election in some G-d forsaken African Country run by dictators

Hm..

West is a warrior with friends and will know what to do

The left to worry about and fight are the traditional media and judges

Get them sorted and the socialists are finished

Start by pulling the plug on cable, that poision you allow your family to watch

kong1967
kong1967

Are we sure everyone even left the building?

This is bullcrap. In my eyes they are up to something. At the rate they counted throughout the day, it would take less than 10 minutes to count the remaining votes. They make it very difficult to give them any credibility or trust.

Rshill7
Rshill7

I read that there is now a Republican in charge of the recount. His name is Todd Mowry. He is Vice Chair of the County Board of Commissioners.

marketcomp
marketcomp

Well that says whatever the results are there will be NO recount. If the results are going to be certified on Tuesday there is really no time for a recount. So let's pray and hope the results are with LTC. West!

toongoon
toongoon

I wish I could be comforted by knowing that a Republican is in charge.

NYGino
NYGino

Sadly it has come to that point. We don't know who to trust anymore.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Same here. Don't want to get my hopes up with the way they've been dashed and bruised recently. But a little hope... That I can manage. West for the WIN!

Haywoodjbl
Haywoodjbl

This will be interesting........

sickofit5
sickofit5

If there has been misconduct what are the chances of dear old Eric getting involved. 0

wodiej
wodiej

they could have finished in less than 10 mins. Either they are going to try some shenanigans or they are delaying the bad news for liberals.

Wolfie
Wolfie

I think Col. West is gong to win and they know it. So they stall so they can get the message out to their cronies and political operatives so they get their "story straight" and all sing from the same "song sheet" when the news breaks. I could be wrong, but I rarely am! :-)

kong1967
kong1967

That makes a lot of sense. However, according to Rshill7, a Republican is in charge of the recount. If that's true, I'm baffled by them leaving with less than ten minutes worth of counting to do.

NOZERO2012
NOZERO2012

Hasn't anyone yet realized that surveillance cameras were invented quite some time ago?

Perhaps they have, but still don't know how to operate them.

Terijo Brewton
Terijo Brewton

How many of us distrust our vote counters? I actually think we may have made a fatal error getting away from paper ballots which can be recounted. The machines can happily hum away and, at the end of the night, register whatever the heck they were programmed to register.

sDee
sDee

what's not to trust?

http://media.tcpalm.com/media/img/photos/2012/11/07/1108_TCLO_TCSLELECTION2_t607.jpg

""The first crew that went to retrieve the machine grabbed the wrong one, one without any results. A second crew had to be dispatched.

"We've never had it happen before," Walker said.

Elections officials also had to manually rerun the early voting results from the four locations for Thursday through Saturday because the results from cards used in the machines showed errors when they were downloaded Tuesday night""

jrt1031
jrt1031

What seems odd to me is that on election night results for states were in within seconds of closing times and yet a re-count takes months and seems almost impossible to certify. Why isnt there a standard for vote counting that is used in every state. And when you look at the margin of error it seems impossible to have an honest truthful vote in the USA.

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/video-rampant-voter-fraud-observed-by-poll-watcher-in-va/

This video demostrates what huge fraud was used here in the US on election night. Now the democrat party has to be aware of this fraud and knowing this must give them little confidence on BO.

kong1967
kong1967

I don't get it. Why have poll watchers if you can cheat right in front of their eyes and they can't do a dart thing about it....even afterwards?

NYGino
NYGino

They really do think we're a bunch of idiots, unfortunately it seems like the majority of voters are.

SKL53
SKL53

You can't trust the left! They are underhanded creeps who don't do things fair and square! Honorable people such as Allen West don't exist among the progressives! They have to lie, cheat and claw their way!

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

The left traded any honor they might have had years ago for the seduction of power.

Someone here (so sorry, name escapes) wrote:

There's honor then there's obama.

It can also be said, "There's honor, then there's democrats".

akgrama
akgrama

Thank you, Allen West, for standing up against unlawful election practices. If only we had more MEN in our leadership that would not tolerate dishonesty.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Hope they made sure the building was really actually empty before locking up for the night. Watch the windows for signs of flashlights and/or lights mysteriously going on and off "by themselves." If you know what I mean.

las1
las1

My concern would also be... who is the last person in contact with the 304?

Man! I'm just going crazy here. Waiting... and now this.

Reading some of the comments on local Florida news posts is truly disgusting. One theme constantly regurgitated is that West is an extremist.

With these brain shackled Democrat plantation slaves, TRUTH IS EXTREME. Damn tootin' West is extreme.

And it all goes to prove that with Democrats, race is not even the issue. It's all about their far left ideology of hate. It does not matter what race, or what marginalized group or what colour you are... if you don't toe the line of the leftists, you just will not be accepted... PERIOD! Then their mantra becomes, "get em... demonize em... kill em...

Wolfie
Wolfie

Let's hope Col. West will have the last laugh and be able to tell those who plotted to subvert the electorate's wishes to "stick it!" And yes, I'm being polite. :-)

Sally Morris
Sally Morris

I've been looking for an update all day Saturday. When I read this, I stepped back for just a second, while the thought sunk in..... This is America? We are talking about votes in an American election? I don't recognize the land of the free and the home of the brave anymore. I know, I know. My sleepy childhood mind caught up with my adult brain after a few minutes, but for a moment it was an utter shock to see how far we have fallen.

sDee
sDee

You have got it right. The truth will make us miserable. This is just what surfaces - a truth is so evil and ugly, yet so fantasied and romanticized by the media, that even a glimpse of it will send the natural slaves running back to the safety and comfort of their TV's.

There are those who will fight through it for the truth. What is behind this, may be far worse than what bubbles to the surface.

Rocco11
Rocco11

You have to watch those Leftist criminals like a hawk...

BOPOS
BOPOS

I think a recount of every ballot from every precinct in the entire Country should be double checked. I would bet my life Romeny really won.

librtifirst
librtifirst

Romney was nominated via fraud, then lost the election due to fraud. This is how it works in America now.

There is no way to count all of the ballots, because the ballots don't exist in many areas. We now have electronic elections, and he who controls the machines controls the electorate.

BOPOS
BOPOS

There was a paper printer that recorded my vote on my machine . I don't know if all are that way. Why do you say Romney won nom by fraud?

librtifirst
librtifirst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feRQbAzGVas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Z_PMfDFLg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTVK98RISI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCJ67fMLI4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPBnuvRAjWQ

Here are a few, but what needs to be understood is that where electronic voting took place, the primary could easily be rigged, and the caucus' were exposed to be fraudulent because of the open process.

Legally elected Missouri Chairman arrested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqXdA9xZl1c

If we ever want a non-establishment nominee, then we had better do what the Paul people did, and on a mass scale. We had also better get rid of electronic voting and vote counting. We cannot allow the GOP to flip the votes in a "secret" counting location. It doesn't matter who is running, their pick will take votes from all of the rest.

librtifirst
librtifirst

Most people that I talk to are not aware of it, because it was the RP people who forced it, and exposed it. It did get some coverage by the media, but it was liberal media that covered it to slam the GOP during the primary. It was basically under the radar of most conservatives.

RP was focusing on campaigning hard in the caucus states. Though he has little chance of winning the nomination, he would have had a platform at the convention if he won enough states. In the end, he did win enough states to get a platform at the convention, but was still denied.

Nevada is the best example of fraud in the primary, so for the purpose of narrowing it down to one state for the sake of an expedient example, I will limit to that for now.

Most of the fraud was recorded via "handy cam" and personal testimony. There are many youtube videos on this. The vote counts in the states were taken at the caucus', then phoned in to a secret tabulation location that the GOP set up. Many who were at the caucus' recorded the individual vote counts. When they checked on their votes later, the numbers were flipped for Romney. In some cases, a particular district recorded 2 votes for Romney, then after checking with the state GOP as to how they were recorded found out that Romney was awarded 22 of their votes.

The RP people won Nevada hands down. They won it because the took almost all of the delegate slots. They could not take that many delegate slots if they didn't actually get most of the votes, because delegates are awarded to a particular candidate based on how many votes they got. The delegates are awarded at the district level caucus' based on the amount of votes given to their candidates.

After the RP people literally took over the Nevada state GOP, the Romney camp and the national GOP came into Nevada and created their own new GOP and simply cut out the duly elected RP delegates.

You could do a search on youtube for "Maine delegates", or "Maine RNC", and you will get an idea about how they nullified the Maine delegates.

Nebraska brought in electronic voting machine to the state convention at the last minute. This is not how it is normally done, but the electronic machines can be used to put in whoever they want, and the RP people were dominating Nebraska.

Oregon (my state) cut out their duly elected RP delegates and put in their Romney delegates.

The rules changes made at the RNC were all about being able to do all of this according to the new rules, in the next election. It was all illegal this time around and against the GOP rules. Do your remember how they passed the new rules at the RNC?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_ylYNbAlY

RP won 22 of 25 Nevada delegates.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/06/ron-paul-supporters-capture-majority-nevadas-natio/

Now look at the delegate count for Nevada.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates

Fraud won it for Romney, and the GOP shoved Romney down our throats.

JRD1
JRD1

Your right! Etch-a-sketch never won the Florida primary. The Bush crime family saw to that!