FL-13: What's Going On?
Posted by on December 6, 2006 at 12:47 PM
Over at DailyKos, Adam B. takes a look at what exactly went wrong in the 13th District of Florida, where Democrat Christine Jennings is still fighting to make sure that every vote, and every voter, is heard.
One option Adam looks at, explained by Rick Hasen, election law professor:
The House can — and should — declare the seat vacant, requiring the seat to be filled by a special election. ...
Overturning an election in the courts is tough, absent proof of fraud or proof that legal votes were not counted.
But there is another option. The Constitution provides that "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members ... ." The House has resolved disputed elections before. For two reasons, the House should declare the seat vacant, triggering a special election.
On the web: Christine Jennings
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As usual, Governor Dean is the first to get out front on this and demand a special election. This is the prime result from the 2006 election that shows a clear and concise attempt to steal an election with corrupted voting machine software. 18300 votes disappearing in a county won by the Democrat by 53-47% while losing by 369 votes cannot be ignored by the congressional democrats. This is the reason they are in there in the first place, to fix our election system. The other four republican leaning counties had insignificant undervotes. This was Katharine Harris' district. 'nuff said from Sarge!
When Democrats lose they want a recount. When Democrats win they refuse to allow a recount, like in Virginia. Democrats won seats in Florida by personal attacks on Republican Candidates, for things that Democrats do also.
Any candidate that supports Muslims is a murderer.
After the 2000 election in which hundreds of people in southeast Florida were disenfranchised, it's happening again. This is beyond partisanship. It strikes at the heart of the American way.
Just because they have not found the reason for 18,000 lost votes is no an excuse for calling it a mystery and walking away. It's time the courts recognized that the state of Florida is disenfranchising citizens.
The only way to rectify the situation is to have a clean revote.
Mr. Protectborders, it would be quite easy to do just that with those 150,000 soldiers that I trained for 25 years here in the U.S. on the borders instead of being killed and maimed in a fraudulent war imposed on our country. That's where they would be if Mr. Gore who won Florida by over 50,000 votes when they finished counting them after the Supreme Court stopped the recount when the lead had dropped to 235 votes had taken his rightful seat in the White House. By the way, 911 would not have happened either because Mr. Gore would have paid attention to the presidential daily briefing on August 3 of 2000 headlined Bin Ladin plans attack in the United States. Geez, I can't believe anyone would not like to count all the votes. It would keep the U.S. out of a lot of trouble.
Dear Mr Protectborders.
I guess when you say something like "Democrats won seats in florida by personal attacks on Republican candidates..",you mean attacks on your boyfriend Mark Foley,right? Too said Marky's gone now. Ooh, by don't you worry about that,he still loves you and he says he wants to spent the rest of his life with you. Yeah baby.. The only thing he's worried about is that he can't make love with teenagered boys anymore, since he lost his seat in Congress and can't use federal mail to correspond with them, but he said he is ok with having sex with you. He also promissed to bring some hard core porno and S&M stuff next time. He says you love it. You love that crap,don't you? Yeah baby,yeah... Wait a second, maybe you're one of the FBI most wanted pederastic pedophiles??? Man! Who do we have on the blog?
Oh yeah, before i forget, if you wish to say something smart next time,make sure it's gonna be about protecting borders ,like your name says.
Come on, you all!! This is your chance to help convince the democratic party to contest the most obvious evidence of electronic voting machine fraud in 2006. Let's get some participation here. Christine Jennings in Florida 13 lost by 369 votes but a county she won by 53% had over 18000 votes that just vanished. She has refused to concede. This section needs to have more responses than any on here. Governor Dean has called for a revote. Get on here and express your opinion. It is your democracy, too! Sarge
18 THOUSAND vote discrepancy, should have negated the election and caused an automatic re-vote. Where's the ire, the justifiable outrage? Where is the demand for ALL the voters to be represented?
Come on, people, The Republicans have kicked this party in the teeth for 12 years, when are you going to stand up for something???
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