Candidate can't check voting machines yet (Sarasota, FL)

[DoYouEverWonder]

November 22, 2006

TALLAHASSEE — A Leon County judge Tuesday rejected Sarasota congressional candidate Christine Jennings' request for immediate access to touch-screen voting machines in the disputed election that she officially lost by 369 votes, but did require the state to respond to the request on an expedited schedule.

Jennings had asked that Sarasota County Elections Supervisor Kathy Dent be forced to allow Jennings' experts to run tests on the machines to determine why 18,000 voters in Sarasota County - 15 percent of the total who used touch-screen machines - failed to vote in the congressional race to replace Katherine Harris.

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Pete Antonacci, a lawyer for Cobb, said she is planning to test the machines on Tuesday anyway, and that she, as an "objective" observer, should be in charge of the machines, not Jennings or Vern Buchanan, the Republican whom the state certified Monday as the winner of the race.

"We believe that putting these machines in the hands of the gladiators is guaranteed to produce an outcome that's going to be unsatisfactory," Antonacci said.

Reggie Williams, a lawyer for the liberal group People for the American Way, rejected Antonacci's characterization of Cobb as "objective" because the state has an inherent interest in preserving public confidence in voting machines, even if the machines are not accurately recording voter sentiment.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2006/11/22/a3a_jennings_1122.html


Show us the votes Cobb. What's the matter? Can't do it?

[mcg]

1. "Show us the votes"

good wording

[SoCalDem]

2. Too bad she cannot just get everyone who VOTED for her

to just show up at an assigned location and demand to be COUNTED..

There's a record of who voted..:)

[xsheep]

3. Analysis Suggests Missing Votes Backed Democrats

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/11/22/in_fl13_analysis_suggests_missing_votes_backed_democrats.html
"The group of nearly 18,000 voters that registered no choice in Sarasota's disputed congressional election solidly backed Democratic candidates in all five of Florida's statewide races," an Orlando Sentinel analysis of ballot data shows.

"The trend, which continues up the ticket to the race for governor and U.S. Senate, suggests that if votes were truly cast and lost -- as Democrat Christine Jennings maintains -- they were votes that likely cost her the congressional election."

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Don't the missing votes always back the DEMS

this sort of thing rarely happens to REPS.

BTW: Welcome to DU :hi:

[xsheep]

5. thanks

Curious, isn't it?

Cruella's revenge, I think.