TPM: Big News Out of Georgia?

[featherman]

3:39 PM ... More to be said on Georgia maybe. People have been asking us all night why Georgia hasn't been called on our results map. The results map is keyed to the Associated Press results. So we actually don't have direct control on when states get colored in. But we've been wondering the same thing ourselves. Why no call from the AP? All evening we've been hearing sporadic reports that many if not all of the early votes simply hadn't been counted yet. There were a lot of them. And I believe they were supposed to be disproportionately African-American. And now WSBTV.com in Atlanta is reporting this: "Fulton and Gwinnett Counties failed to include any advance votes in their election totals by 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Officials at the Secretary of States office confirmed to WSB-TV Channel 2 that the votes were not being included in early returns. Up to two million votes may be going uncounted. 'Something's really wrong out there,' said WSB-TV political analyst Matt Towery." That could have a very big effect on the senate race in the state. So Saxby Chambliss may not be home free after all."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ah saxby go home and STAY HOME

GOOD

[vaberella]

2. Please forward to the Obama campaign. We can take Georgia!!

[byronius]

3. Hey, it's just two million votes. C'mon. Be real.

[liberalmuse]

4. Two million fucking votes missing???

You gotta be kidding me? This better be investigated. Obama probably won GA, and Chambliss was probably kicked out on his tookus.

[Peace Patriot]

5. Ha! **HA!** Goodbye, Shameless! Now they've just got to FIND those early votes.

Computer "glitch," ya think? Power outage? Gee, where'd that little bitty thing go, that, uh, memory card? 2 million, you say? They must be here SOMEWHERE.

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Did I tell you how much I hate these election theft corporations?

[nico818]

7. TWO MILLION VOTES?! Count it MF'ers!

[RepublicanElephant]

6. georgia = the new ohio n/t

[liberalla]

8. Update:

4:05 AM ... Kos has more on this. It seems there may be a solid 600,000 or so votes still to be counted. And remember, the total votes in the senate race is under 4 million. So that's more than enough to have an effect on the outcome.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/5/31224/2461/107/653834

[genna]

13. I knew that Georgia CALL WAS B.S.

I think the Federal Government (Independent Prosecutor) should step in if the state's Republican administration has swapped Fulton, Gwinnett, or DeKalb's votes for its own judgement. Prosecution anyone?

[high density]

9. This is crazy

Record early voting everywhere, and they decided to not release those totals? They need to get with it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. What were they expecting?

That the t.v.s would call it for Saxby and the counting would just stop?

[Canuckistanian]

11. They won't get away with it THIS time

There must be some quaking in boots about now.

[Alpharetta]

12. This is why I was afraid to vote early here in Georgia

Karen Handel has done her best to be the Kathryn Harris of this election.

[Citizen Jane]

14. Same here, didn't trust the pukes...

of course the lines sucked too.