The following update was provided by Allen West for Congress late Saturday:
“With all provisional and absentee votes counted in the 18th District, Congressman West currently trails by roughly 2,400 votes, a margin outside of the threshold for an automatic recount. The race remains undecided because there are issues that still need to be resolved in St. Lucie County. Late on Election Night, Congressman West led by 1,700 votes. Following the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections’ decision to recount thousands of early ballots after a technical glitch, the margin shifted by 4,000. In order to ensure that votes were not doubled counted, we have requested that the St. Lucie Supervisor of Elections make public the poll check-in books to ensure the numbers of ballots cast matches the numbers of voters checked-in at the polls. Once that information is provided we believe the outcome of the election will be clear. It is troubling that days later that information is still not available. Our sole focus is ensuring all ballots were counted fairly and accurately.”
UPDATE: Nov. 10, 6pm
“Tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m., the St Lucie County Supervisor of Elections will recount all early votes cast in St. Lucie County. West for Congress is pleased with the Supervisor’s decision, as the counting of early votes on Election Night was of great concern to our campaign, given the large shift that occurred at midnight of nearly 4,000 votes.
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Personally I think the election overall was rigged – why? Voters caught voting 2 times or more and being arrested – how many dead people voted? Not counting the military vote and machines when voted for Rommney said Obama – I would not put it past Obama to do anything illegal. He was smart enough to know he could not run on his record so use intimidation of fraud to win.
I would suggest you get with Sheriff Joe & the Donald and get the Donald to offer $5 million for smoking gun proof of obamas real verifiable records. Someone has access and with that kind of $$$ and police protection we can get rid of Obama plus this bengazi thing I would use whatever means you have to get the truth on this – Petraus and Clinton left because they were forced to leave or did not want to go down with a sinking ship…….or their lives were threatened. Alan West has a right to the truth as all of us. Please get your sources to talk to sheriff joe he is not afraid of anyone
i agree with you 100%
You left out the 2 counties in Colorado that had more people vote than there total population!
agreed
It’s over, if it makes you feel better to think the election was rigged, so be it, to everyone outside your bubble, it make you delusional and in denial, perhaps professional help is required, it’s covered under RoMoney/Obamacare.
Right On!
Personally the whole night was very suspicious to me, it started with New York and Jersey (besides Chris Christie deciding to kiss Obama’s ass a few days before) being called for Obama with all the devastation, lost lives and chaos with people waiting in line for virtually everything, and by 9:45. All of a sudden Florida didn’t count anymore, we were useless and just before that the Miami-Dade supervisor vaguely gave excuses that there votes would not be completely counted until sometime the next day. I am glad West is stepping up for our rights as well as his, and you have to remember that that is exactly what African Americans fought for years ago before and during the Civil WAR. Diligence is being called on all our parts as a nation and beware of our rights before they continue to be stripped from us. I fear this is only the beginning.
What are you talking about Anne Marie? I’m not in agreement with you. I think Allen West is a disgrace to the military and to his race. Allen West being a retired Army officer, it is unbelievable to see the disrespectful comments he makes about the Commander-in-Chief of the United States. Not everything is freedom of speech. If a white person had asked Mr. Obama to get out of the U. S., he/she will be considered a racist. Now, we have Allen West doing that dirty job for the racists and in effect damaging his own people. The Country Club guys must be loving this. The record $17 million Allen West raised for his his re-election campaign, is indicative of that pay-off, and leaves no doubt he got paid well for selling blacks again. Since the racists believe him, and use him to sow discord, Allen West is the one to be send back to Africa before he causes a civil war among the rest of us, whites, African Americans, Jews and Hispanics.
I’m sorry Anne Marie, it’s people like you who has no sense of how elections work, but claim you know, make life difficult for those around you. Based on your stupid analysis on New York and New Jersey, you might as well question why the whole country was called for President Obama on election night the votes in the west coast were counted. Why are you not questioning why mid-west and the west coast were all called on election night?
You claimed you live in Florida, the you forgot your own Republican governor Rick Scott was responsible for stifling the vote. Just so you know, those who run the Tea PArty are very, very rich people. They’re no ordinary people.
Wow!!! What an idiot you are for suggesting that government has anything to do with a decorated General trading his reputation for sex. The work that Hilary Clinton does is not easy spending more than half-of-the-year traveling. It just makes sense she wants a break. For all the education you got from you the conspiracy theorists, government has something to do with it. On Libya, everybody is waiting to get the truth. No need to rush now.
Forrester, Bless you for having the guts to post what I believe is the truth. The Tea Party is NOT grass-roots. Just ask Dick Armey… The rest of these comments show the enormous amount of racism that is harbored in the Tea Party, and just what a bunch of uneducated ignorant people they are.
Obama sole the election, he should be arrested and tried for treason, after this obvious fraud of an election why should we bother to vote in the future unless we fix the problem now with this self proclaimed god…
How does one SOLE an election ? Do tell.
What is SOLE? Another ignorant fool.
In 13 Philadelphia wards, Obama received 99 percent of the vote or more.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-09/news/34995157_1_voter-turnout-president-obama-gop-voters
If it weren’t for GOP gerrymandering PA, we’d have a Dem house of Representatives.
The ballot machines were rigged, at the begining the defaulted to Obama, never to Romney. If in fact it was a calibration error, as they said, it would default randomly. So they fixed the machine calibration on key states to record only Obama’s vote after Romney reached a certain percentage of the votes. Technology is amazing thing, you can make it do whatever you want it to do. Dishonest people like Obama takes full advantage of it. Unfortunately the Republicans don’t have the smarts, and cahones to expose it.
And the company that made those machines is owned by one of Romney’s sons. So I guess he secretly endorsed Obama, huh? You are as stupid as the rest of the neo-fascist right wing
So true, so true. Thank God the smarter, honest party won.
Tell them Recopen. I would like to see how a person like Anne Marie reads a newspaper. (upside down, I guess). Well, she must use dictation software to send messages on the computer/internet. I used to be patient, but now, I’m tired of the ignoramus.
Can somebody please explain to this people that there is not doubt Mr. Romney may be good a family man, but he doesn’t strike some of us as a good pastor. That looks bad on the Mormon church. Mr. Mitt Romney was good running Bain Capital because he was good at buying companies, sell them and make huge profits and lay-off the workers. Don’t be fooled, Mr. Mitt Romney wasn’t good running government in Massachusetts. In fact during his tenure, Massachusetts ranked 47 th in the country. He is very authoritative. Running the United States of America is different from running Bain Vulture Capital. Too many lies with Mr. Romney dating back to when he governed Massachusetts. Lastly, a commander-in-Chief must be credible both home and internationally. Need I say more?
I believe the Spanish word you are looking for is CAJONES Maria.
what about people on public assistance isnt that buying votes.
We are a country divided and the prevailing attitude of working against each other will destroy our great nation from within.
You are right and the sad thing is that some, if not a lot of our politicians like it that way. We fight, they have their wedge issues and then have these ‘outside’ groups spending millions of dollars to get or keep them in office. This one is over, let’s work together to make things better for the next one (2014 will be here before you know it).
Rich and Michael, you got it! 2014 will be here before we know it and the other loonies like Bachman and Rick Scott’s turn to be replaced with sane people.
It is keeping us from doing what we do best.
Y’all need to get a grip, get a handle on it and get over it. West and Romney lost. Roll credits.
Yikes, you have a very immature nature in your post. I bet you were one of the morons that voted for Obama. I hope you are happy with the next four years as our country continues to slide into the abyss. In 4 more years we will be Greece. Yes Obama won, but in the end, I believe West wins. Either way I’ve gone Galt, until if and when our country becomes America again.
Hello Detfan name-calling moron, when you break out of your bubble, you’ll see that in the real world, sore loser and coward Allen West’s 15 mins of fame is over and you should accept the will of the American people. Patrick Murphy was democratically elected and will prove to be a great choice for his constituents and the Nation.
Sad, sorry, sore losers, the American people have spoken and rejected the GOP policies and candidates. Obama’s vision and values are shared by the majority of the Nation. If it weren’t for GOP gerrymandering in PA, the House of Representatives would have a Dem majority too. Allen West’s radical, extreme, appalling record is a thing of the past, and it’s time for his supporters to support the will of the majority of the American people, failure to do so will result in the disappearance of the GOP and no-one but the minority bigots will mourn it’s demise – Forward!
NEWS FROM THE FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Statement on Certification of Patrick Murphy’s Victory in CD-18
TALLAHASSEE, FL — Following the certification of election results in Congressional District 18 showing that Patrick Murphy has officially won the election and is outside a recount margin, the Florida Democratic Party issued the following statement:
STATEMENT FROM FL DEMS CHAIR ROD SMITH:
“The Florida Democratic Party once-again congratulates Congressman-elect Patrick Murphy on his now official election victory over Tea Party Titan Allen West. Throughout Florida, the citizens of our state sent a decisive message to both Washington and Tallahassee that they are sick of the broken, Tea Party extremists epitomized by politicians like Rick Scott and Allen West and want a new direction for our politics. Patrick is a rising star in our party who is standing up for the middle class families of Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie, and he will be a strong voice for the people of his district in Congress.”
Florida Democrats have now officially picked up four congressional seats — roughly 50-percent of the number of Democratic pickups made nationwide.
As an independent, I want to congratulate you for your win. However, I find some of your language a bit like what the other side uses. Please have Mr. Murphy use this immediate and fresh victory to conduct town Hall meets and bring unity to the people before the people who only know how to sow seeds of disunity regroup.
Congratulations.
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Who am I?
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