CNN Breaking: 1st Ballot for Majority Ldr invalidated -- irregularities

[Sgent]

More votes were cast than there were Republican members of the House -- irony at its best.

The 2nd attempt at the 1st vote leaves Boehner and Blunt as the only remaining candidates. 2nd vote is taking place now.

[Beetwasher]

1. Oh. My. God.

That is too funny! Or sad. I really don't know anymore.

[electropop]

59. I LOVE IT!

Simply beautiful irony.

[Demeter]

2. Why Am I NOT Surprised? n/t

[CottonBear]

3. How could that possibly happen? Does Diebold count the votes? n/t

[benburch]

4. Repiglicans even cheat on their OWN elections!!!

This is PRICELESS!

[0007]

5. Just like Ohio - n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

6. Too funny

Are they using Diebold, too?

[MissMillie]

7. ROFLMAO

More votes were cast than there were Republican members of the House -- irony at its best.

I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long, long time....

[DeepModem Mom]

8. LOL!

[Bjornsdotter]

9. One for you, two for me

One for you, two for me etc.

Idiots!

Cheers

[CottonBear]

10. The idiots forgot that the Peurto Rican Representative was there.

Link to news article on DU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2081449

[Me.]

11. Diebold Strikes Again n/t

[SillyGoose]

12. Call the SCOTUS pronto! They know what to do w/ voting irregularities!

Oh, the irony of this!!

:rofl:

[elehhhhna]

13. RECOMMENDED!

[JaneQPublic]

14. Maybe they need to mark their fingers with the purple ink. (nt)

[UpInArms]

15. Stuffing the ballot boxes again??

:rofl:

[AllegroRondo]

16. Someone email this to John Stewart

[rateyes]

17. Unfreakingbelievable! OMG....

didn't know they used Diebold to cast votes on the House floor!

[nofoil]

18. Breaking News from The Hill: Voting Irregularities, House Leader Election

Voting irregularities found in House leadership election

By Patrick O’Connor

House Republicans were forced to discard the results of their first ballot in the election for majority leader Thursday afternoon after members discovered an error in the number of ballots received compared to the number of members present in the room.

Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) announced that she thinks those counting ballots forgot about Rep. Luis Fortuno (R-Puerto Rico) so there appeared to be a clerical error.

Republican leaders did not reveal the results of the initial vote, and members were forced to cast their ballots a second time.

[Me.]

19. Diebold? n/t

[nofoil]

21. No, Just DeStupidity

[Pirate Smile]

20. Ha ha. They should know better then trust themselves with an election.

[ewagner]

22. No Diebold = Wrong repub getting elected

Time to go back and do a little

kneecapping
bribery
arm-twisting
threatening
intimidation

er .... ahhhhh.... politicking! That's it! Politicking

[mattclearing]

23. Hilarious.

They even fix their own elections.

[havocmom]

24. Link?

:shrug: Pretty please?

[nofoil]

28. I got it directly from the Hill

I subscribe to The Hill's e-mail news service, so got the story as it broke. The link for the Hill is www.thehill.com

[AlCzervik]

25. Blunt only got 110 out of the 117 he needed, Shadegg dropped out

so now it's a revote between Blunt and Bainer? Bonner? Buehler?

[Hardrada]

26. Boner

[AlCzervik]

27. Bohner just won, live on cnn

[Judi Lynn]

29. Interesting! He must seem the cleanest of the bunch. Thanks!

[MissWaverly]

45. Has Roy Blunt demanded a recount

[Judi Lynn]

72. No news, yet. I just checked. I hope he does. We can use some great

entertainment.



Blunt!

[MissWaverly]

76. Remember, Delay claims he is innocent

reality doesn't stand a chance against their egos.

[Atman]

30. The GOP knew Blunt was damaged goods

They simply couldn't afford to have a SECOND majority leader forced to step down during an election year. They're idiots, but they're not stupid.

[Art_from_Ark]

78. "They're idiots, but they're not stupid"

I think I'm going to have to mull over that one for a while :rofl:

[Maine-ah]

43. link?

[The Doctor.]

57. Got a link? n/t

[wordpix2]

74. roflmao---maybe now the sheeple will begin to understand how their pRes

was selected

[fshrink]

31. Habits die hard. nt

[zbdent]

32. Jeez, ya think they need

voter ID?

[kurth]

33. Invalidated? So, there IS honor among thieves...

[balzac]

34. Somebody needs to be arrested for this

More votes than voters? This is a serious crime.

[Kagemusha]

37. If it's a 1-vote difference over the Puerto Rico status issue

then they need a civics lesson, not handcuffs.

But hey we'll see.

[gordianot]

35. Maybe they could get some assistance from the College of Cardinals on this

How to hold an election with flair and not cheat. When the majority leader is chosen they could throw the ballots in the fire and signal with smoke.

I just love it "the second attempt at the first vote".

[triguy46]

36. using their own tactics on each other. Is Diebold involved?

[Uncle Joe]

38. Is Katherine Harris in charge of the vote,

or was it held on a diebold machine?

[Roland99]

40. Was OH's Blackwell anywhere near the Capitol Building today?

[Uncle Joe]

42. So many suspects, so little time. n/t

[demo dutch]

39. What's with the tan, Boehner!!!

[KansDem]

41. Here they are, applying their time-tested tactic...

[maxrandb]

44. Did they vote for their leader, before they voted against him?

You just can't make this shit up.

Mark my words! This will fall down the memory hole rather quickly. Who wants to bet how many hours of the 24 hour news channels, or hours of the radio hate show would be spent examining every single aspect of this fiasco???

If it's embarrassing to the Dems, it gets the "missing beautiful young blonde" treatment.

If it's embarrassing to the Pukes..."What was that"? "Let's get past that". "Now onto Dems that took 'Abrahamhoff related' money".

L...I...B...E...R...A...L

M...E...D...I...A

M...Y

A...S...S!!!!!

[BR_Parkway]

46. Do-Over on First Ballot (ReThugs have more votes than people)

Well now, it's not just us they cheat - they even cheat in their own House leadership elections!

http://rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/12015-1.html

Thursday, Feb. 2

House Republicans are taking a mulligan on the first ballot for Majority Leader. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting. Stay with RollCall.com for updates.

[BOSSHOG]

47. And the "winner" was from Ohio!

[cal04]

51. I wonder why

(giuess there was no one he liked from NCarolina)

In Franklin County, Ohio, electronic voting machines gave Bush 3,893 extra votes in one precinct alone. "Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B," according to this report. "Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president."


In Craven County, North Carolina, a software error on the electronic voting machines awarded Bush 11,283 extra votes. "The Elections Systems and Software equipment," according to this report, "had downloaded voting information from nine of the county's 26 precincts and as the absentee ballots were added, the precinct totals were added a second time. An override, like those occurring when one attempts to save a computer file that already exists, is supposed to prevent double counting, but did not function correctly."

[Tesla]

52. this is crazy!!!!

they cheat on each other....

[Wilms]

48. Yes. And they aren't terribly honest about their own primaries, too.

FBI seizes ballots in close '04 legislative race

Casey Newton
The Arizona Republic

Feb. 1, 2006

Federal authorities seized ballots cast in a 2004 Republican primary on Wednesday, a move that could put to rest a long-running dispute over who won the race.

FBI agents met with staff members from the Maricopa County Treasurer's Office in the afternoon to take control over the ballots, which have been stored in a secure air-conditioned facility near Sky Harbor International Airport.

At issue is the outcome of the close race between John McComish and Anton Orlich. McComish prevailed after an automatic recount found nearly 500 new votes, reversing the initial outcome.

snip

Ever since, Orlich and his supporters have questioned how so many new votes appeared during the recount. After reviewing the voting machines used in the election, Douglas Jones, a University of Iowa computer scientist, said he could not rule out the possibility of fraud unless he examined the ballots to determine whether there had been tampering.

snip

http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/0201recount01-ON.html


Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x411687

[maxrandb]

49. Talk about "shit you just CAN'T make up" n/t

[daleo]

50. No biggie - they let a few dead ones vote.

It's a big tent.

[abex]

54. and lobbyists, too nt

[sarge43]

53. Can't wait to see how they'll blame this on the Clenis.

:rofl:

[ozymandius]

55. Ha! They even try to steal their own elections!

eom

[mistertrickster]

56. This should be on the GREATEST page . . . why can't we vote it in?

nt

[benburch]

58. Here is what actually happened.

Not as much fun, but its the truth;

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_GOP_Too_Many_Votes.html

Looks like they forgot Puerto Rico's non-voting representative to the house can vote in the Majority Leader ballot. Hence the extra ballot.

Sorry to spoil a good laugh, guys.

[Rex]

60. They forgot...how appropriate!

Just like Repukes to forget how to vote! Sheesh.

[benburch]

62. Puerto Rico is always forgotten.

Especially by the Repiglicans.

[DS1]

61. Understood, they were in such a rush to get their guy in they ignored

procedure. Or at least, common sense.

[Renew Deal]

63. It's still funny.

:rofl:

[Laelth]

66. That doesn't make any sense.

If they forgot that he could vote, then, if he did vote, the number of votes would be correct.

If they forgot that he couldn't vote, then, if he did vote, there would be too many votes, but that's not what the report says.

Only way for him to be allowed to vote and for there to be too many votes, is if somebody stuffed the ballot box.

Am I missing something?

-Laelth

[benburch]

68. He cannot vote on legislation.

But he can vote on Party matters such as majority leader.

The "representative" from DC has the same deal.

I think we ought to make Puerto Rico a State, or cut it loose. They deserve some real representation.

[IndyOp]

71. The 50 States, too?

Real representation or cut us loose too? Please?

:bounce:

[loudsue]

81. LOL!!! I'm with you, IndyOp!!!

:rofl: That's great! Let me out'a here!!!

:kick:

[Thor_MN]

80. So if it was determined that PR's rep's vote was valid, why the do-over?

Did they just say, "Oops, someone screwed up, let's vote again" before figuring out what the problem was? That does sound like the GOP, rushing off without a plan and doing the same things over and over in the hopes that this time, maybe, it won't end in disaster...

[acmavm]

64. The repulican party is not running on brains and honesty, that's for

sure.

What a disgrace to have these buttholes in our government.

The bright spot: Blunt is out. I bet it's a tense night in the Blunt household. Or maybe he called up his friend Tommy and they're having a boys night out to cry on each other's shoulders.

[madmark]

65. is this a joke?

[Emillereid]

67. Were they using Diebold machines?

[Canuckistanian]

69. Did they drop the ex-felons off the list?

That would account for the difference.

[wordpix2]

75. no, obviously felons are allowed to vote--witness repuke ballots cast

[Canuckistanian]

77. Good thing Katherine Harris isn't in charge!

BTW, nice boob job she got. Didja see it on Hannity?

I thought Colmes would blow a tire, if you get my drift.

[dennis00]

83. future felons

In an effort to appear "clean" they were going to eliminate future felons from voting, but they discovered there wouldn't be anybody left to vote or to vote for.

[samhsarah]

70. too fucking funny!

:rofl:

[AX10]

73. Republicans will even cheat in an election between themselves.

My God, they are BAD!

[NashVegas]

79. The Daily Show Is On It Now

hee

[autorank]

82. I'm shocked, truly shocked. How could this happen

:rofl:

[rfkrfk]

84. when the Miners-Found-Alive network reports something ....

count on it