Rick Scott Watch
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Follow up to the Brevard Legislative Delegation
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| Rick Scott Watch at the Brevard Legislative Delegation 12/12/12 |
Dear Brevard Legislative County Delegation and Madam
Supervisor
I wanted to answer some of the points that were made and
bring up some points that were glossed over regarding elections in Viera on
Wednesday Dec. 12. 2012
* Miami-Dade: Senator Gardiner seemed to imply that once the
Miami-Dade situation is all worked out, everything will be fine with regard to
early voting and long lines. Of course this isn't true, and I suspect the
senator is well aware of his overstatement of the case. There were problems
with early voting and long lines on election day reported all over the state.
Three of the counties I mentioned in the information I provided you saw massive
lines which were exacerbated -as I said - by Machiavellian power outages and
scanner failures. In the case of Tampa Bay counties, as though the advent of
rain and a tiny bit of thunder, were a novelty to the office of elections
supervisor, and churches in African American polling precincts.
Keeping with the Miami-Dade problem here. MSNBC ran numerous
stories leading up to the election relative to the lines we should expect in
Florida owing to the ballot size. Rachel Maddow specifically mentioned Miami
Dade was expecting an 11 page ballot because of
local amendments added to the bar exam we all took. How then is this a
"surprise" in hindsight, now to be dealt with? Are we saying Rachel
Maddow is more qualified to run our elections? She saw this coming and the
State Division of Elections, the Secretary of State and the Legislature had no
idea? Is not the division perfectly aware of where the bottle necks are likely
to develop? If not, what need have we of this organization? Is every county
"on it's own" when it comes to planning for such an election?
*Mr. Gardiner said "I suspect the legislature is being
blamed for that" Yes. It is. And with good reason. As I said, the
legislature counted on it, banked on it. Plotted for it behind closed doors, to
hear former Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer in the newspapers. And the
evidence that this is so, is in the very record of the legislature Mr Gardiner
wishes to absolve with this blase summation. As I said, quoting Sen. Mike
Bennett as HB 1355 was being discussed in May 2011, "I want them to work
for it" he said, during a time purges and ballot amendments were being
discussed. Losing track of space and time, whisking himself back to the Florida
of the colored and white bathrooms in the 1950s, Mr. Bennett went further and said "I
want them to walk across town for it." There is very little doubt in the
context (in that he specifically mentioned Africa) who his dog whistle was
aimed at. African American voters. As a democrat when I see my fellow democrats
having their opportunities their franchise removed, revoked on the basis of
shady evidence, when I see the wheels of social engineering attempting, with
great cynicism, to remove them from the lines, I get outraged, for there goes
my vote as well.
Back to the Miami situation: Does the division not know how
many early voting locations will be open? Does the legislature not know the
ballot will be translated into Spanish for south Florida voters? Of course it
does on both counts. In past elections, amendments often had an abstract of
each bill, not the entire bill on the ballot. Not in 2012. Ms. Scott said it
herself, it takes one quarter of an hour just to read the ballot let alone
understand the amendments. Furthermore the ballot is written in such cumbersome
legalese even attorneys from the ACLU had trouble decrypting it; before we
hot-walk the tired excuse that "people didn't study it ahead of
time". Here is a single sentence from amendment No. 5 (where the
legislature thoughtull plotted, schemed, cannived, conspired and hoped we would
put the judiciary beneath the power of a 2/3rds majority house and senate) it
reads, in 9 point typeface:
"This proposed constitutional revision eliminates the
requirement that a general law repealing a court rule pass by a two-thirds vote
of each house of the Legislature that expresses the policy behind the
repeal."
This amendment alone had 400+ words, densely packed, in tiny
print. Ms. Scott was good to point out there was a six page ballot. She didn't
mention how packed it was. No one on the board mentioned or questioned the need
to ram all of these amendments on this test paper/ballot. If you let others do
your voting for you, you lost rights to a third branch of government, or
allowed people to take your tax money and put it toward religious schools.
You legislators all seemed resigned/mildly surprised by the
ballot's size as well, as though you yourselves weren't the authors of it. How
can this be? (We also must question the efficacy of reducing assessments on
dwindling property values as we allegedly seek to "balance the
budget" particularly when the starvation is always meted out to education
and healthcare services.)
Never once are the failures of the voting machines which
result in mystery rescannings, ever mentioned by yourselves or our SOE, Ms.
Scott. I gave you several examples including a study, and even letters from the
voting machine company "Dominion" that has screwed up elections in
Volusia, Hillsborough and now St. Lucie county by failure to properly code the
memory cards. There never seems to be a call to remove this brand from the
state despite its poor record of service. Verily, as though officials depend on
these errors for nefarious purposes of election rigging. The unspoken secret,
elections officials never utter the name of the machines in public. (Taboo,
children; it's taboo.)
Ms. Scott mentions she has 385,000 voters. Good statistic.
It is great to have the luxury of having relatively few voters. Thus, the
budget likely meets the needs of her office. Other counties aren't so
fortunate. Voters shouldn't suffer for this. Nor, frankly, should Ms. Scott be
given such high praise relative to other failures around the state when we are
talking about a county that has mostly one party, republican. She doesn't have
to worry about the obvious rigging, malfeasance and failures happening through
other elections offices. It is also disingenuous to ask her if she feels 8 days
are enough. Brevard with only 385k voters would not be a meaningful data point
to make that case, "that eight is enough".
Nearly half of the states in the nation have early voting.
We have 18 million people in Florida. We need early voting. We need to expand
the number of days, not subtract from it.
Senator Altman's harping on this issue of "legal
voting" is also like Tammany Hall petty-foggery of an earlier era. We
don't HAVE a problem with this issue, when matched against the tens of
thousands of votes that are tainted with the rescannings all over the state.
This is only a start on the myriad of issues which are of
major concern to those of us who plainly see what will wash out to be a white
wash of the problems in our election systems unless you officials actually
start being honest with yourselves and the voters.
Thank you
David A. Kearns
Election Integrity Advocate
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Florida Officials Molest and Rape Democracy then Cover it Up Like Lying Bishops
In Boston in 2003
sexual abuse was reported by victims of child-molesting priests, cases going
back thirty years. Hand-wringing “How did it happen”? For decades the dioceses
was required by the church to report these cases to Rome rather than proper authorities.
The church convened internal investigations that went nowhere, never assigning
blame or punishment. The sexual abuse of children continued. It was only after
OUTSIDE authorities were involved did the rape, and molestation of the innocent
stop.
The situation is analogous to our rigged Florida elections:
there is a criminal conspiracy to rape democracy, whose mountain of
circumstantial evidence is now visible all over the statein the form of vote-flipping
software and machines, bogus ballot rescannings, mysterious power outages and
phone-line failures to erase evidence and footprints. Even Robocalls by an
elections supervisor, telling voters to turn in ballots AFTER THE ELECTION. Time
and again, these EVIDENCES, traces of bad intent, result in botched or late
results and miscounts since before 2000. This year we even had a mini bar examination
intentionally shoe-horned inside the ballot, along with chopping early voting
in half, as though the mechanics of these choices weren’t understood.
The state division of
elections - under the direction of the “pontiff” in Tallahassee, the high priesthood
of the RPOF - RIGS our elections. There is no other
explanation that bears scrutiny when all is taken into account. Now, when the
mountain becomes notorious in the conduct of the 2012 contest, the pontiff and
priesthood, propose to investigate their very violation of democracy TO DEFRAY
SUSPICION. This, to the willfully blind eyes of our local, state, and national
politician and our do-nothing media. It was a perfect storm they will say,
expecting us to swallow this.
Of course they will offer fake solutions – all electronic
return ballots; no warm bodies at the polls – to make rigging elections easier
in 2014, and 2016. This is the monster of our childhood nightmares asking us to
leave the window open for them next time. This time, no self-inflicted
Governor’s “Whoopsie-Daisy Commission” will do. We need federal investigations
into our division of elections, our governor, our secretary of state and
several offices of elections supervisor. And all of you should be calling for
them. FBI, USDOJ, and the Federal Elections Commission. It is your duty. Stop
ignoring the evidence, only a relative sample of which is found in the
supporting documents I presented you. You don’t ask any Omerta-bound Mafia to
investigate itself. IT NEVER WORKS.
2. On July 7, 2010 Florida Voters Foundation completed a study and sent this to
Interim Sec. of State Dawn Roberts. It was created by people who work within
elections offices, elections experts, and computer scientists. Numerous flaws
in our elections systems throughout the state were noted. They issued dire warnings
of problems for the upcoming primary and the general election in Nov. 2010.
This thoughtful, polite warning went unheeded, discarded, ignored. As much by
the Division of Elections as the media, in the media’s case likely because no
one wore a funny hat. ( I brought one for
their benefit.)
3. On Nov. 6, 2010
The general election in Hillsborough Tampa, Earl Lennard Supervisor of
Elections Memory cards failed to upload their data . These were 12
memory cards that all were sent to early voting locations in African-American, middle-class
and the student community near USF. This resulted in the “rescanning” of 38,000
ballots all at one central location of the elections supervisor after ballots
had been furiously driven around in the middle of the night with indeterminate
chain of custody followed. One machine was blamed. Half the early vote, in the last three days
of it. Rick Scott cleared the recount hurdle by 0.6 percent. If these 38,000
had gone for Alex Sink, there would have been a recount. No investigation by
the division of elections.
4. On Aug 14, 2012. Deborah Clark supervisor, Primary election in Pinellas County, on
the other side of Tampa Bay, the same error – cards failed to upload their data
this time on ES and S machines – this time, 36,400 ballots were retabulated -
but this time by data dumping the memory cards after once again furiously
driving these around in cars after voting closed, to the flatfooted confusion
of the media. This represented every
single vote, voted on primary election day in all locations. First Clark blamed
the phone lines, next the computers in the supervisor’s office, then a power
outage earlier in the day that no other offices in the Largo Florida office
park reported. Then she settled on something called a “gateway device” whose
function, nature and utility was never explained. It didn’t help that Clark had
anti-Obama messages images on her facebook page. (15). No investigation from
the Florida Division of Elections, no follow up from the media. A light switch,
a wall socket: these are technically gateway devices. As is a phone jack.
5. Moving to the General
Election Nov. 7, 2012 Ms. Clark
again in Pinellas County. (I
will now don my tinfoil hat in honor of the election fouling UFO of Tampa Bay).
Ms. Clark sent out a “robo call” to 27,000 voters who had requested absentee
ballots. The robocall which was received by as many as 12,000 voters on
election day, told voters to bring their ballots in “tomorrow” after the
election was over of course, in which case, had they followed her advice, their
ballots would be discarded. No explanation, no investigation. “Whoopsie Daisy”
and pointing to a contractor, effectively her excuse for her behavior.
6. Still the general election day, last.
Earl Lennard Supervisor, back across Tampa Bay in Hillsborough again. Mysterious power outages at the election supervisor’s office. Same equipment as
had been used in 2010. Scanners failed. No investigation. Ion Sancho, SOE for
Leon County/Tallahassee uses the same
system as Hillsborough, never reports problems with these machines on election
day in Leon county (pp. 22-23).
7. Speaking of the Dominion voting systems. Still on general election day, last,
Gertrude Walker SOE St. Lucie County. Much media coverage was given of the Allen West and Patrick Murphy race for
the newly drawn 18th Congressional district. Directing you to (page
27), the record of events indicates again “memory cards failed to upload” this
time affecting more than 15,000 early voted ballots which were rescanned in the
same fashion of Hillsborough in 2010. Middle of the night and so on. In that
case, during the rescanning phase West gained 500 votes on Murphy, additional
ballots were found. It is a mess that to this day has never been explained.
Murphy won because there was no legal remedy to force St. Lucie to machine
recount a 3 percent sample of all the ballots. Since the difference between
West and Murphy was .58 percent, and not .5 percent mandated by law. Perhaps
someone didn’t rig the rescanning hard enough. Strangely West now remains mum
about what clearly is a botched if not rigged election. An audit did happen,
but no formal investigation.
8. At last we consider the farce of putting a mini Florida
Bar exam in the state ballot at the same time cutting early voting from 14 to 8
days. You will see on where this meets the definition of “the use of
tests or devices in determining eligibility to vote”. On May 5 , 2011 while hashing out HB 1355 State Senator
Mike Bennet said “I want them to work for it” he also noted “people in Africa”
walk 200 miles for it. The reference meaning what? American blacks don’t work
hard enough? And some of you voted along with him for these extreme measures
which are obviously born of bad faith not to mention racism. Work for it
includes standing still for six hours holding your water, then completing a bar
exam along with your vote for all other offices. It’s a wonder voters weren’t
asked to conduct a minstrel show.
9. The governor will now convene his Whoopsie Daisy Commission
to determine how he is not to blame of course, how the obvious scheming of the
republican party, was actually the “Perfect Storm” electorally. Having created
this crisis, along with the legislature, he will make the age-old case, the Holy Grail of fascist corporatism: all electronic return voting: no
warm bodies at the polls; utterly riggable and unverifiable. Bye bye,
democracy.
"You each swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the State of
Florida and the United States of America against ALL enemies, foreign and
domestic. Please do so."
The words went in one ear out the other.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Rove Now Has a Limited "Shelf"-life
Republicans eat their own. Especially when their utility to the cause has run its course. And Karl Rove qualifies.
We have heard the rumors that Anonymous managed to cyber infiltrate Rove's election stealing empire and shut him down. This you have to match against Rove's absolutely bizarre performance on election night, on FIX Noise.
I was watching purely for entertainment sake as the results came in. Like many of you, I wanted to see their reaction: either looking for sound bites and tells for a rigged election, or the desire to experience the schadenfreude of watching their dumbfounded bewilderment, the astonished terrified indignation of a loss, in their face, so to speak.
With Rove we got a little bit of both. As you watch the video, of course, note the data presented on the screen as Rove absurdly informs us of the oddly specific figure in the 900s relative of the split between Obama and Romney in key counties.
Weird he should be so sure, and so specific. Nine hundred and ninety one. Which he says the head of the Romney campaign has the totals three minutes ahead of the networks.
Only in the world where folks like Anonymous claim to know all does this tell, totally make sense. And maybe this is a classic bluff the entire Anonymous deal. If it is, it's genius and I can't help admire them for it.
If what many of us in the Election Integrity movement believe is true, Rove's associates had something to do with the death of computer programmer Mike Connell in 2008. Connell's unexplained airplane crash coming just a day before Connell was set to provide a deposition relative to what those of us in the EI community to be the stolen election of 2004 in Ohio, Bush v Kerry.
I feel it highly likely now, there was a similar death involving the late Phyllis Busansky a democratic Hillsborough county Florida supervisor of elections who died the following year while helping the FBI investigate her predecessor Buddy Johnson. I feel she was in the process of uncovering precisely how the rig works in Florida, and the powers really couldn't have that, so, unfortunately these scum do what scum are wont to do sometimes.
Now that leaves Rove, keeper of the secrets and now as useless as tits on a boar hog. Because if Anonymous is to be believed, they have ferreted out his secrets and now they actually have the goods on him; how his network works and so on.
And if this is true, that makes him a liability. Because if Anonymous turns this evidence over to federal investigators as radio guy Thom Hartman suggested today, they will go after him. Which they should.
I was watching Jackie Brown last night on Netflix which is one of my favorite movies of all time. And there is a scene that reminds me of what this might mean to the powers that be.
"He ain't got doin' time kinda disposition," says villain Ordell Robie. "That there is a simple equation of him or me, and you had best believe, it ain't gonna be me."
Gee I don't wish violence on anyone.
But I also am a big fan of the movie Fair Game, the Valerie Plame story. Awesome movie, that. The idea that Scooter Libby and Rove, actually leaked the name of the CIA case officer out for political get-back and in one fell swoop, outed hundreds of assets in the field, putting their lives in danger, perhaps - nay, likely - leading to the deaths of several, why, this situation the Rover finds himself in now - if it's true - is just come-uppence.
Even on the surface he has to be worried. What was it, a billion dollars he spent of other people's money on this thing, and for naught?
Wow. Just wow.
I often think back to my time in central America and the stories. You know, one way they got rid of people who were troublesome? Car crash. Strategic car crash. Sort of like Dick Cheney's strategic heart trouble (SHT) only in reverse.
There were actually people who specialized in this sort of wet work. They just were so damned good a plowing cars into people. They had the cars specially made for this work. They trained for it: head on collisions.
Ooospie daisy.
But it was wartime, wasn't it. Cold War. Journalists, labor leaders "subversives" they called them. Or sometimes it was a DEA agent, or someone for the embassy.
Car crash. On holiday in Panama, you know. They drive like hell in that country. Oh well.
So how long do we give Karl Rove?
If, and this is speculation so don't get all a tingle, if, Anonymous is to believed, it will come soon. Because there is no witness protection program big enough, or vast enough, to hide Karl Rove.
Does he continue to hide in plain sight on Fox, just to get our goat? For a while, yeah. But those whom Rove fleeced, like the victims of Bernie Maddoff, will only be able to stomach his blatant visage appearing on their favorite funhouse of orgasmo conservative wet dreams for so long. You can already hear the brittle tone, the dismissive menacing undercurrent reserved for Rove, Mitt and that genius, Dick Morris.
The Donald was on FUX and Fiends, just the other day, and he just up and called the Roverster a "hack" out of the blue, as though doing homework, or perhaps like comedian "Stuttering John" who used to force his way into cameo interviews just so he could shout out to Howard Stearn. Sick that I know that.
Seriously, though. I wish Karl Rove the best, poor dear. It's got to be tough being Karl these days. However many there are left to him.
We have heard the rumors that Anonymous managed to cyber infiltrate Rove's election stealing empire and shut him down. This you have to match against Rove's absolutely bizarre performance on election night, on FIX Noise.
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| Rove saying there is a 991 margin for Obama, when on screen the margin stands at 28,756. A difference of 27,765 votes or 96.5 percent difference. This he claims happens in the space of 3 or 4 minutes |
With Rove we got a little bit of both. As you watch the video, of course, note the data presented on the screen as Rove absurdly informs us of the oddly specific figure in the 900s relative of the split between Obama and Romney in key counties.
Weird he should be so sure, and so specific. Nine hundred and ninety one. Which he says the head of the Romney campaign has the totals three minutes ahead of the networks.
Only in the world where folks like Anonymous claim to know all does this tell, totally make sense. And maybe this is a classic bluff the entire Anonymous deal. If it is, it's genius and I can't help admire them for it.
If what many of us in the Election Integrity movement believe is true, Rove's associates had something to do with the death of computer programmer Mike Connell in 2008. Connell's unexplained airplane crash coming just a day before Connell was set to provide a deposition relative to what those of us in the EI community to be the stolen election of 2004 in Ohio, Bush v Kerry.
I feel it highly likely now, there was a similar death involving the late Phyllis Busansky a democratic Hillsborough county Florida supervisor of elections who died the following year while helping the FBI investigate her predecessor Buddy Johnson. I feel she was in the process of uncovering precisely how the rig works in Florida, and the powers really couldn't have that, so, unfortunately these scum do what scum are wont to do sometimes.
Now that leaves Rove, keeper of the secrets and now as useless as tits on a boar hog. Because if Anonymous is to be believed, they have ferreted out his secrets and now they actually have the goods on him; how his network works and so on.
And if this is true, that makes him a liability. Because if Anonymous turns this evidence over to federal investigators as radio guy Thom Hartman suggested today, they will go after him. Which they should.
I was watching Jackie Brown last night on Netflix which is one of my favorite movies of all time. And there is a scene that reminds me of what this might mean to the powers that be.
"He ain't got doin' time kinda disposition," says villain Ordell Robie. "That there is a simple equation of him or me, and you had best believe, it ain't gonna be me."
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| "Who's that?" "That there is Beaumount.." |
Gee I don't wish violence on anyone.
But I also am a big fan of the movie Fair Game, the Valerie Plame story. Awesome movie, that. The idea that Scooter Libby and Rove, actually leaked the name of the CIA case officer out for political get-back and in one fell swoop, outed hundreds of assets in the field, putting their lives in danger, perhaps - nay, likely - leading to the deaths of several, why, this situation the Rover finds himself in now - if it's true - is just come-uppence.
Even on the surface he has to be worried. What was it, a billion dollars he spent of other people's money on this thing, and for naught?
Wow. Just wow.
I often think back to my time in central America and the stories. You know, one way they got rid of people who were troublesome? Car crash. Strategic car crash. Sort of like Dick Cheney's strategic heart trouble (SHT) only in reverse.
There were actually people who specialized in this sort of wet work. They just were so damned good a plowing cars into people. They had the cars specially made for this work. They trained for it: head on collisions.
Ooospie daisy.
But it was wartime, wasn't it. Cold War. Journalists, labor leaders "subversives" they called them. Or sometimes it was a DEA agent, or someone for the embassy.
Car crash. On holiday in Panama, you know. They drive like hell in that country. Oh well.
So how long do we give Karl Rove?
If, and this is speculation so don't get all a tingle, if, Anonymous is to believed, it will come soon. Because there is no witness protection program big enough, or vast enough, to hide Karl Rove.
Does he continue to hide in plain sight on Fox, just to get our goat? For a while, yeah. But those whom Rove fleeced, like the victims of Bernie Maddoff, will only be able to stomach his blatant visage appearing on their favorite funhouse of orgasmo conservative wet dreams for so long. You can already hear the brittle tone, the dismissive menacing undercurrent reserved for Rove, Mitt and that genius, Dick Morris.
The Donald was on FUX and Fiends, just the other day, and he just up and called the Roverster a "hack" out of the blue, as though doing homework, or perhaps like comedian "Stuttering John" who used to force his way into cameo interviews just so he could shout out to Howard Stearn. Sick that I know that.
Seriously, though. I wish Karl Rove the best, poor dear. It's got to be tough being Karl these days. However many there are left to him.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Abandoned Shopping Mall is No Place for Supervisor of Elections Office
Welcome to the St. Lucie County Office of Supervisor of Elections. It's located in a run-down former shopping mall on State Road 70 in Fort Pierce Florida.
Now, why might this be?
There are no answers to that question. The supervisor's office says there are budget constraints which placed it here and there's nothing can be done on her end. The chairman of the county commission assures us the office is well funded, and that the failure of 6 of 18 memory cards in their job of transmitting data, is a result of poor training at the office, only. He knows this for a fact, and will brook no argument as to security, equipment, software or otherwise.
Here's what the state audit of the fouled election between Allen West and Patrick Murphy looked like. Here we see David Drury, chief of voter systems certification for the state, hard at work, or swindle, and we don't know precisely which it is. Certainly the lack of transparency is concerning. The only reason we can see him is because this phone camera pic is taken in the two inch space between a drawn vertical blind, and the wall.
One concern for security of an election is hackability: can the guts of the voting systems be attacked from remote computer assault? That means, someone posting-up with a router, some signal decrypting equipment and mal-ware on a laptop. And the answer is? Yes. How? Well, the tabulating room - that's where the memory cards are coded before they are sent out to the voting precincts or early voting places, and where the data streams back from them and is compiled. It turns out this vital space is adjacent to a totally abandoned store. The divider between them is apparently wallboard over metal studs.
On the left is a massive empty store, on the right is the supervisor of elections office. The white blinds behind the glass cover up the State Audit underway on Thursday morning. The tabulating room is between these two.
The mall security systems, alarms and so forth, come on at 10:30 p.m. according to the Palm Beach Post. And yet on a typical day, the office closes at 5 p.m. While we were there, we could see no evidence of any mall security cameras anywhere.
Layout of the office?
When the recounting retabulating was going on, on Wednesday, they said there wasn't enough room to acomidate the press and observers, so they hauled the voting equipment across the mall walk to an abandoned jewelry store type space. Observers could walk from this space back and forth into the office tabulating room.
The condition of the mall itself, the falling ceiling tiles, the mold and dust, gave one much to think about. There were no video cameras in the "jewelry store" monitoring the twenty voting machines in operation as this proceeded. Who knows if this is relevant.
Elections supervisor Gertrude Walker and David Drury inside the "jewelry store" during the rescanning. No security cameras, ceiling tiles falling, dust.
In sum it is sufficient to say voting, is one of the most important processes we pay for in government. The vote is the place where all other decisions in government come from.
And yet, in St. Lucie County Florida, the vote is afforded a small corner in a run down largely abandoned shopping mall near the highway-town in Fort Pierce.
The office is wide open for any number of security failures.
When a failure does happen we get two vastly conflicting stories, neither of which make any sense. The media plays them up, without investigating the obvious. On the one hand, the democratic party goes after those going after Ms. Walker.
Yes, Ms. Walker is a 30 year veteran at her job. What about a scanning machine left in the Tradition polling precinct overnight? These things are not mutually exclusive. They both can be true. The latter needs to be investigated, regardless of the former.
The county commission chairman we spoke with can point fingers at Ms. Walker all day and say she was to blame through incompetence. And yet, what about this appalling setting they have place her in?
Ms. Walker doesn't have to be in on the steal to have these lapses in her office, and the security at the mall exploited for a rigged vote.
St. Lucie is one more example of how the state division of elections isn't just presiding over yet another (yawn/vomit) "Perfect Storm" of conditions leading to a screw up. No. The state division of elections obviously knows - or should know - the conditions under which the vote is taken and collected around the state.
They are guilty of aiding and abetting a screwed up vote: and it appears anymore, they are part of the swindle to sway the vote one particular way, over and over again. Because if it were all a mistake, they mistake would break left, as well as right. But it doesn't.
Allen West GAINED 500 votes in the confusion. Rick Scott won after a tainted vote. Al Gore LOST after a supreme court decision and a 16,022 backward vote in Volusia County.
And for years apparently everyone knew this office was located where it was, and was in the condition it was in before the screw up of 2012.
Now, why might this be?
There are no answers to that question. The supervisor's office says there are budget constraints which placed it here and there's nothing can be done on her end. The chairman of the county commission assures us the office is well funded, and that the failure of 6 of 18 memory cards in their job of transmitting data, is a result of poor training at the office, only. He knows this for a fact, and will brook no argument as to security, equipment, software or otherwise.
Here's what the state audit of the fouled election between Allen West and Patrick Murphy looked like. Here we see David Drury, chief of voter systems certification for the state, hard at work, or swindle, and we don't know precisely which it is. Certainly the lack of transparency is concerning. The only reason we can see him is because this phone camera pic is taken in the two inch space between a drawn vertical blind, and the wall.
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| Florida Division of elections chief David Drury at work surrounded by opened boxes of ballots |
One concern for security of an election is hackability: can the guts of the voting systems be attacked from remote computer assault? That means, someone posting-up with a router, some signal decrypting equipment and mal-ware on a laptop. And the answer is? Yes. How? Well, the tabulating room - that's where the memory cards are coded before they are sent out to the voting precincts or early voting places, and where the data streams back from them and is compiled. It turns out this vital space is adjacent to a totally abandoned store. The divider between them is apparently wallboard over metal studs.
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| Left is a cavernous unsecured facility with wallboard separating from, right, the sensitive machinery tabulating the votes in the St. Lucie Supervisor of Elections Office. |
The mall security systems, alarms and so forth, come on at 10:30 p.m. according to the Palm Beach Post. And yet on a typical day, the office closes at 5 p.m. While we were there, we could see no evidence of any mall security cameras anywhere.
Layout of the office?
Another concern is the storage area for the voting machines. This is adjacent to the mall service exit. There is a simple lock to the storage room which opens on the mall walk. The lock is one you might find on the side door to your garage. In the service exit hallway are stacked boxes by the dozen. Do they contain voting equipment or things necessary to the voting process? Unknown.
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| Walk right in |
While the doors into this from the service exit hallway are only accessed via card swipe, the wrong person with the right card working at the wrong hours, could access this room unseen from either the mall, or the outside as there are exit doors on either end of the hallway. There didn't appear to be any cameras in this hallway. We entered from the public mall walk, the door wasn't locked. We took our time photographing everything inside it, then left through the fire exit door, which also was unlocked. There were no signs of No Tresspass.
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| Voting Equipment Left OUT IN THE OPEN. |
When the recounting retabulating was going on, on Wednesday, they said there wasn't enough room to acomidate the press and observers, so they hauled the voting equipment across the mall walk to an abandoned jewelry store type space. Observers could walk from this space back and forth into the office tabulating room.
The condition of the mall itself, the falling ceiling tiles, the mold and dust, gave one much to think about. There were no video cameras in the "jewelry store" monitoring the twenty voting machines in operation as this proceeded. Who knows if this is relevant.
Elections supervisor Gertrude Walker and David Drury inside the "jewelry store" during the rescanning. No security cameras, ceiling tiles falling, dust.
In sum it is sufficient to say voting, is one of the most important processes we pay for in government. The vote is the place where all other decisions in government come from.
And yet, in St. Lucie County Florida, the vote is afforded a small corner in a run down largely abandoned shopping mall near the highway-town in Fort Pierce.
The office is wide open for any number of security failures.
When a failure does happen we get two vastly conflicting stories, neither of which make any sense. The media plays them up, without investigating the obvious. On the one hand, the democratic party goes after those going after Ms. Walker.
Yes, Ms. Walker is a 30 year veteran at her job. What about a scanning machine left in the Tradition polling precinct overnight? These things are not mutually exclusive. They both can be true. The latter needs to be investigated, regardless of the former.
The county commission chairman we spoke with can point fingers at Ms. Walker all day and say she was to blame through incompetence. And yet, what about this appalling setting they have place her in?
Ms. Walker doesn't have to be in on the steal to have these lapses in her office, and the security at the mall exploited for a rigged vote.
St. Lucie is one more example of how the state division of elections isn't just presiding over yet another (yawn/vomit) "Perfect Storm" of conditions leading to a screw up. No. The state division of elections obviously knows - or should know - the conditions under which the vote is taken and collected around the state.
They are guilty of aiding and abetting a screwed up vote: and it appears anymore, they are part of the swindle to sway the vote one particular way, over and over again. Because if it were all a mistake, they mistake would break left, as well as right. But it doesn't.
Allen West GAINED 500 votes in the confusion. Rick Scott won after a tainted vote. Al Gore LOST after a supreme court decision and a 16,022 backward vote in Volusia County.
And for years apparently everyone knew this office was located where it was, and was in the condition it was in before the screw up of 2012.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Kicking the Can Down the Road
Judge Dan Vaughn ruled Allen West had no case for demanding a recount via a Judge's order. So the matter was kicked back to the St. Lucie County canvassing board.
The news came in the 19th Circuit Court this afternoon in Fort Pierce.
The difference between Allen West and Patrick Murphy now stands at 0.58 percent. Just outside the realm of what would rightfully demand a recount.
Somewhere in the mess of election night, between the failure of six memory cards , and the rescanning of 26,400 votes, Allen West gained 500 votes relative to Patrick Murphy.
It is a mess. Once again the damned machines have had a part in it. In this case the supervisor's handling of it brought even more uncertainty into the equation.
But in the end, Judge Vaughn ruled there were "other legal remedies" than demanding a judge's order forcing the canvassing board to recount all eight days of early voting (bet the republicans wish they had back all 14 now!) as well as the absentee ballots. In which case, the judge had no legal authority to override an elections board. The deadline for certification is Sunday, November 19.
The date when, for intents and purposes, the totals become final. The election can be challenged, and West's team says it will if the canvassing board votes today to do nothing; they can bring up a massive lawsuit, which will take the entirety of Patrick Murphy's term in office to rule on.
See Christine Jennings versus Vern Buchanan and tha Sarasota County supervisor of elections, for how it went. Hint: Buchanan is still in congress.
The point is, just because Murphy "won" doesn't mean the machines and someone's idea of "fair" chicanery didn't hurt him. The legitimacy of his tenure will have an asterisk next to it as far as the right is concerned. The wounds felt by Floridians in this are real.
Tea Party types are marching where I would be marching against the result that gave us Rick Scott. This is a blatant carbon copy of the result in that case.
Because I really do not like Allen West and feel some relief that -pending the miracle of outright stupidity and the canvassing board decides to recount everything West's team is asking for - Murphy will be in the office, this still is NOT a good result.
By the way, if the latter happens? It is Murphy's people will challenge and this fight will essentially impeded the tenure, power and effectiveness of the 18th Florida congressional district for the next two years.
St. Lucie uses virtually the same equipment Hillsborough used in the 2010 race and continues to use: Dominion voting operating Diebold/Premiere scanners and tabulators, running off GEMS software. This garbage needs to go.
Look at what it is doing to us. West's people are wealthy, and middle class Palm Beach types, most of whom are white. They are blaming Walker, and her staff most of whom are black.
You have white tea partiers and hard core conservatives rallying around a black guy, going after what they see as a corrupt SOE office run by a black woman. Go figure. The new America.
The point is, these damned machines are nothing but a divider. They don't work. When they don't distrust soars through the roof. People feel their democracy and their rights are being taken away.
I listened to dissertations from these folks who are convinced that George Soros, Warren Buffett and Obama had something to do with what is happening in St. Lucie county. They talked about the former two purchasing voting machines via investment buyout; leave off that those attempted purchases haven't materialized yet and Dominion owns the contract on all the equipment in St. Lucie County; a Canadian Company with ties to the hard line Rovian election theft machine, according to this source.
But see, they don't want to hear all that. They see their side only because they don't want to consider the fact that their own people way on up the food chain, might be the ones who made the attempt to rig the vote in St. Lucie to boost Allen West.
Murphy's folks are obviously worried that fait accomplis may lurk in the numbers of a recount for that very reason! And how do we trust the Florida Sec. of State Ken Detzner? YOU CAN'T he's a partisan appointed former beer lobbyist who was handed the ship of state the SS. Suppress the Black Vote by another shady partisan appointee, Kurt Browning.
Can you trust the audit team currently down at the St. Lucie office of supervisor of elections directed by a shady little man known as David Drury? Hell to the no, Murphy's people can't. Not if they have a brain in their collective head. Drury has his little paws all over the office now. All over the works. Who fucking knows what that little man has been up to. He's been in there two days now.
And you'll have more luck getting a straight answer from a cat.
So where are we? The elections systems in this state are fornicated, completely. And no one trusts.
And we have no earthly idea what in Croesus went on inside the office of supervisor of elections on election night in St. Lucie county. And we will ask for a conduct of election report all the same and it will have words on it and such, and no matter, we still won't know a damned thing.
We have to get rid of these damned machines, and learn like school children, how to count slips of paper, by hand, all over again.
Attorney for Patrick Murphy Sean Dominick put it to me this way: "In Iraq, they learned how to count the vote, who voted and so on, by putting a purple mark on the thumb of the voter. Easy. What are we doing here?"
The news came in the 19th Circuit Court this afternoon in Fort Pierce.
The difference between Allen West and Patrick Murphy now stands at 0.58 percent. Just outside the realm of what would rightfully demand a recount.
Somewhere in the mess of election night, between the failure of six memory cards , and the rescanning of 26,400 votes, Allen West gained 500 votes relative to Patrick Murphy.
It is a mess. Once again the damned machines have had a part in it. In this case the supervisor's handling of it brought even more uncertainty into the equation.
But in the end, Judge Vaughn ruled there were "other legal remedies" than demanding a judge's order forcing the canvassing board to recount all eight days of early voting (bet the republicans wish they had back all 14 now!) as well as the absentee ballots. In which case, the judge had no legal authority to override an elections board. The deadline for certification is Sunday, November 19.
The date when, for intents and purposes, the totals become final. The election can be challenged, and West's team says it will if the canvassing board votes today to do nothing; they can bring up a massive lawsuit, which will take the entirety of Patrick Murphy's term in office to rule on.
See Christine Jennings versus Vern Buchanan and tha Sarasota County supervisor of elections, for how it went. Hint: Buchanan is still in congress.
The point is, just because Murphy "won" doesn't mean the machines and someone's idea of "fair" chicanery didn't hurt him. The legitimacy of his tenure will have an asterisk next to it as far as the right is concerned. The wounds felt by Floridians in this are real.
Tea Party types are marching where I would be marching against the result that gave us Rick Scott. This is a blatant carbon copy of the result in that case.
Because I really do not like Allen West and feel some relief that -pending the miracle of outright stupidity and the canvassing board decides to recount everything West's team is asking for - Murphy will be in the office, this still is NOT a good result.
By the way, if the latter happens? It is Murphy's people will challenge and this fight will essentially impeded the tenure, power and effectiveness of the 18th Florida congressional district for the next two years.
St. Lucie uses virtually the same equipment Hillsborough used in the 2010 race and continues to use: Dominion voting operating Diebold/Premiere scanners and tabulators, running off GEMS software. This garbage needs to go.
Look at what it is doing to us. West's people are wealthy, and middle class Palm Beach types, most of whom are white. They are blaming Walker, and her staff most of whom are black.
You have white tea partiers and hard core conservatives rallying around a black guy, going after what they see as a corrupt SOE office run by a black woman. Go figure. The new America.
The point is, these damned machines are nothing but a divider. They don't work. When they don't distrust soars through the roof. People feel their democracy and their rights are being taken away.
I listened to dissertations from these folks who are convinced that George Soros, Warren Buffett and Obama had something to do with what is happening in St. Lucie county. They talked about the former two purchasing voting machines via investment buyout; leave off that those attempted purchases haven't materialized yet and Dominion owns the contract on all the equipment in St. Lucie County; a Canadian Company with ties to the hard line Rovian election theft machine, according to this source.
But see, they don't want to hear all that. They see their side only because they don't want to consider the fact that their own people way on up the food chain, might be the ones who made the attempt to rig the vote in St. Lucie to boost Allen West.
Murphy's folks are obviously worried that fait accomplis may lurk in the numbers of a recount for that very reason! And how do we trust the Florida Sec. of State Ken Detzner? YOU CAN'T he's a partisan appointed former beer lobbyist who was handed the ship of state the SS. Suppress the Black Vote by another shady partisan appointee, Kurt Browning.
Can you trust the audit team currently down at the St. Lucie office of supervisor of elections directed by a shady little man known as David Drury? Hell to the no, Murphy's people can't. Not if they have a brain in their collective head. Drury has his little paws all over the office now. All over the works. Who fucking knows what that little man has been up to. He's been in there two days now.
And you'll have more luck getting a straight answer from a cat.
So where are we? The elections systems in this state are fornicated, completely. And no one trusts.
And we have no earthly idea what in Croesus went on inside the office of supervisor of elections on election night in St. Lucie county. And we will ask for a conduct of election report all the same and it will have words on it and such, and no matter, we still won't know a damned thing.
We have to get rid of these damned machines, and learn like school children, how to count slips of paper, by hand, all over again.
Attorney for Patrick Murphy Sean Dominick put it to me this way: "In Iraq, they learned how to count the vote, who voted and so on, by putting a purple mark on the thumb of the voter. Easy. What are we doing here?"
Thursday, November 15, 2012
State Elections Officials Helping to Shoe-Horn West back into congress
There is very little doubt in my mind the governor, and the state division of elections are working together to shoe-horn Allen West back into congress.
I've seen enough now, once again, and as an honest concerned citizen, I render my own judgment. I also use their past behavior. The division is colluding with West at the behest of the governor. I don't know if the local elections super is in on the deal. But can someone be this inept? Can an office be in this much disarray? Can the office be this vulnerable?
The state, the Rove hacker hit squad, and the governor are using the St. Lucie County Supervisor of elections office as their point of attack.
As I type here in a McDonald's down the road from the office, the attorneys for Patrick Murphy have been trying all morning to get a straight answer from the State Division of Elections and the Supervisor of elections. They are getting nowhere.
Round the back of the building I was able to look inside the room where the audit proceeds slowly. Chief of elections systems and certification, David Drury can be seen marking sheets with a yellow highlighter, aided by one other person. Going through lines and lines of totals from poll tapes.
Going through the motions, I would call it. The elections supervisor saunters around the office, totally unconcerned. There is quite literally a mountain of S to sort through. They are taking their sweet time, as though waiting for a punch clock to chime.
Here are the problems with the election that have been reported to me. This is just a start.
* Precinct 89, in the trendy, planned community of "Tradition", saw the total lapse in chain of custody procedures when an optical scan machine and the memory card sat in a bin until the early morning hours of Nov.7, only rousted by the awakening of the poll worker who was supposed to bring it into the office. The votes had been uncounted.
* Six of 18 memory cards failed from early voting. This required the rescanning of 26,400 ballot cards.
* 3635 votes from early voting were double counted.
*1900 votes from precincts 1-40, were not counted
*As the mess was being sorted, Congressman Allen West gained net 500 votes on Patrick Murphy in the count which brought him just outside the 0.5 percent difference requiring a machine recount. No explanation.
* And, in a recount over the mayoral race for Fort Pierce, there now appears to be a 201 vote discrepancy the Murphy people have found, and they are not getting anywhere but stonewalled.
It is not above this governor, to complete at least one job he was likely assigned out of many during this election, and shoehorn West into office, over Murphy, in the 18th Congressional district.
Now about 100 tea party folks march back and forth in front of the office demanding "justice" and "fairness" in the election, which to them is just give the race to Allen West. The only opposition they face are friends and supporters of Gertrude Walker with signs which read "Save Our Supervisor." Presumably because of this botched election, someone means to fire her.
In Florida we have to be vigilant and forward leaning. People in other states gawp at hard assumptions such as "the state government isn't only incompetent it is run by criminal people who would sooner steal elections than let them carry through fairly."
But when your suspicions are NEVER proved wrong or overreaching and keep materializing over and over as solid fact in the end, what other position should you take?
Turning to the security of the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections office, tucked haphazardly inside something formerly known as "Orange Blossom Mall". On one side of the office is an empty space the size of a Gap store and for all I know it might well have been exactly that. This cavern has all appliances stripped out of it, no ceiling tiles, and nothing but bare wallboard seemingly separates it from the guts of the supervisor of elections office.
Knowing something as to the workings of hacking surveillance and so forth, it would be a trivial thing for a hacker to tuck himself inside that dark space and remotely tap into the supervisor's systems, or otherwise by climbing into the ceiling work. A ladder, a laptop. Time.
On the other side is the room where the audit progresses, sealed from view, despite the comical sign which reads "public viewing area" with long white blinds. On the other side of this room is the warehouse type room where the voting machines are stored. No video cameras immediately evidence from a first glance. On the very back door, opening to the mall walk there is a simple lock you might find on your side door to your garage. An open access on the other side of this room leads to an exit hallway used in better days for employees and store walkers to exit the building by other means.
Two doors leading to the supervisor's office here, are card swipe. In this hallway, are boxes and boxes of election supplies. What are they? Are these boxes where they keep the voting machines?
Why is the office of supervisor of elections in a run down shopping mall? Screams you, to yourself.
Because its vulnerability is useful.
Think of the grass in your yard. Do you control the grass, or does it control you? Think about it. Consider the odd but equally valid way of considering that the grass, actually controls the human species in this country. What do we do? We make houses, bull doze woods, make room for our masters: blades of grass on lawns, golf courses, breezeways, football fields etc.
Look at things differently for once. The media is focused on a two sided billboard: poor Ms. Walker under attack for having to make do with too little, on the one side, maybe not doing her job too well; and those on the right who assume Walker works on behalf of a cabal run by the democratic party.
If this is true I can tell you the democrats are confused as hell and scared they are going to lose this seat. Where are West's people today? Curiously, confidently not present at all. They aren't concerned in the slightest about this audit that could remove West from congress if it is found that 0.58 percent prevents any further action and he lost; just like the state law says. No no. West's people aren't even here today. What do they know that Murphy's people obviously don't?
Money, like grass, is green.
The way I see it, those trying desperately to hold on to power in the U.S. House of Representatives, hold the inside track through Rick Scott here. And they could see the way the new district map was drawn: Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie counties. And they checked them out.
From the get go, St. Lucie was a plum on a tree waiting to be picked. Out of the way county, hurting for resources, staff ill-trained, a supervisor of middling skills. And a building with all the security attributes of Swiss cheese.
Ms. Walker, if she isn't feigning incompetence, now seems resigned to whatever in hell the state wants to do with her office. She's tired.
And now in comes the Fox in the form of Drury and the state division of elections, to inspect the chickens, to see "what went on here."
The rescanning - shades of the Rick Scott election which I believe could have been rigged - and in the confusion and recounting, West who had been totally out of it, not even close, gains relative 500 votes on Murphy: now it's 0.58 percent. Plausible. And the complete cock-up of an election makes it something worth looking at.
Now, Murphy's team trying to get information they need to battle West's legal challenge and what happens? The state feigns cooperation while it stonewalls, benefiting West: in any other setting that's prejudicial favoritism, taking sides with, conspiring with.
And West shall have a day in court and a recount of some sort will proceed...after the fox has left the hen house.
I've seen enough now, once again, and as an honest concerned citizen, I render my own judgment. I also use their past behavior. The division is colluding with West at the behest of the governor. I don't know if the local elections super is in on the deal. But can someone be this inept? Can an office be in this much disarray? Can the office be this vulnerable?The state, the Rove hacker hit squad, and the governor are using the St. Lucie County Supervisor of elections office as their point of attack.
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| Florida Transparency: classic example |
Round the back of the building I was able to look inside the room where the audit proceeds slowly. Chief of elections systems and certification, David Drury can be seen marking sheets with a yellow highlighter, aided by one other person. Going through lines and lines of totals from poll tapes.
Going through the motions, I would call it. The elections supervisor saunters around the office, totally unconcerned. There is quite literally a mountain of S to sort through. They are taking their sweet time, as though waiting for a punch clock to chime.
Here are the problems with the election that have been reported to me. This is just a start.
* Precinct 89, in the trendy, planned community of "Tradition", saw the total lapse in chain of custody procedures when an optical scan machine and the memory card sat in a bin until the early morning hours of Nov.7, only rousted by the awakening of the poll worker who was supposed to bring it into the office. The votes had been uncounted.
* Six of 18 memory cards failed from early voting. This required the rescanning of 26,400 ballot cards.
* 3635 votes from early voting were double counted.
*1900 votes from precincts 1-40, were not counted
*As the mess was being sorted, Congressman Allen West gained net 500 votes on Patrick Murphy in the count which brought him just outside the 0.5 percent difference requiring a machine recount. No explanation.
* And, in a recount over the mayoral race for Fort Pierce, there now appears to be a 201 vote discrepancy the Murphy people have found, and they are not getting anywhere but stonewalled.
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| The empty office separated by wallboard from the tabulation room. |
Now about 100 tea party folks march back and forth in front of the office demanding "justice" and "fairness" in the election, which to them is just give the race to Allen West. The only opposition they face are friends and supporters of Gertrude Walker with signs which read "Save Our Supervisor." Presumably because of this botched election, someone means to fire her.
In Florida we have to be vigilant and forward leaning. People in other states gawp at hard assumptions such as "the state government isn't only incompetent it is run by criminal people who would sooner steal elections than let them carry through fairly."
But when your suspicions are NEVER proved wrong or overreaching and keep materializing over and over as solid fact in the end, what other position should you take?
Turning to the security of the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections office, tucked haphazardly inside something formerly known as "Orange Blossom Mall". On one side of the office is an empty space the size of a Gap store and for all I know it might well have been exactly that. This cavern has all appliances stripped out of it, no ceiling tiles, and nothing but bare wallboard seemingly separates it from the guts of the supervisor of elections office.
Knowing something as to the workings of hacking surveillance and so forth, it would be a trivial thing for a hacker to tuck himself inside that dark space and remotely tap into the supervisor's systems, or otherwise by climbing into the ceiling work. A ladder, a laptop. Time.
On the other side is the room where the audit progresses, sealed from view, despite the comical sign which reads "public viewing area" with long white blinds. On the other side of this room is the warehouse type room where the voting machines are stored. No video cameras immediately evidence from a first glance. On the very back door, opening to the mall walk there is a simple lock you might find on your side door to your garage. An open access on the other side of this room leads to an exit hallway used in better days for employees and store walkers to exit the building by other means.
Two doors leading to the supervisor's office here, are card swipe. In this hallway, are boxes and boxes of election supplies. What are they? Are these boxes where they keep the voting machines?
Why is the office of supervisor of elections in a run down shopping mall? Screams you, to yourself.
Because its vulnerability is useful.
Think of the grass in your yard. Do you control the grass, or does it control you? Think about it. Consider the odd but equally valid way of considering that the grass, actually controls the human species in this country. What do we do? We make houses, bull doze woods, make room for our masters: blades of grass on lawns, golf courses, breezeways, football fields etc.
Look at things differently for once. The media is focused on a two sided billboard: poor Ms. Walker under attack for having to make do with too little, on the one side, maybe not doing her job too well; and those on the right who assume Walker works on behalf of a cabal run by the democratic party.
If this is true I can tell you the democrats are confused as hell and scared they are going to lose this seat. Where are West's people today? Curiously, confidently not present at all. They aren't concerned in the slightest about this audit that could remove West from congress if it is found that 0.58 percent prevents any further action and he lost; just like the state law says. No no. West's people aren't even here today. What do they know that Murphy's people obviously don't?
Money, like grass, is green.
The way I see it, those trying desperately to hold on to power in the U.S. House of Representatives, hold the inside track through Rick Scott here. And they could see the way the new district map was drawn: Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie counties. And they checked them out.
From the get go, St. Lucie was a plum on a tree waiting to be picked. Out of the way county, hurting for resources, staff ill-trained, a supervisor of middling skills. And a building with all the security attributes of Swiss cheese.
Ms. Walker, if she isn't feigning incompetence, now seems resigned to whatever in hell the state wants to do with her office. She's tired.
And now in comes the Fox in the form of Drury and the state division of elections, to inspect the chickens, to see "what went on here."
The rescanning - shades of the Rick Scott election which I believe could have been rigged - and in the confusion and recounting, West who had been totally out of it, not even close, gains relative 500 votes on Murphy: now it's 0.58 percent. Plausible. And the complete cock-up of an election makes it something worth looking at.
Now, Murphy's team trying to get information they need to battle West's legal challenge and what happens? The state feigns cooperation while it stonewalls, benefiting West: in any other setting that's prejudicial favoritism, taking sides with, conspiring with.
And West shall have a day in court and a recount of some sort will proceed...after the fox has left the hen house.
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