but only Democrats commit electoral fraud: James O'Keefe told me that!

And cry wolf at us. They only worry about getting caught. They should be not only dealt with harshly but someone needs to really mess them up for this.

From the link in the OP:

A tad odd that only the Republican votes managed to be put in the next box to be counted.

That version is attributed to Robert Hanlon. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon

In his story Logic of Empire (1941) {Robert} Heinlein declares: "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity". He calls this the "devil theory" of sociology.

And keep in mind these aren't party-line ballots and there's multiple races on the ballot.

So how exactly did that happen with just stupidity?

They were only recounting this one race when the wandering ballots were counted in the wrong polling lot.

If they stacked the Republican ballots and Democratic ballots from each polling place in piles, and someone wasn't paying attention to the division between piles, the Republican pile from one district could have gotten placed with the other one.

Of course, that relies on whether the person putting the piles into the groups for each polling place are capable of counting past two. In none of the articles about the election there was any mention of third party candidates, so that would mean there should have only been two piles of ballots for each polling place.

I don't put it past the stupidity of Republicans to screw up what should have been a simple, straightforward recount. First off, why have more than one polling place ballots out at the same time? Open the sealed box, count the ballots, record the results, put the ballots away, reseal the box. One polling location at a time, no two boxes unsealed at the same time.

What's interesting is even without the 21 "phantom votes" the Republican candidate gained 8 votes while the Democratic candidate lost 14.

That's what they claimed to be doing.


The recount turned up uncounted ballots in other districts. But that was votes either miscounted or not counted, they didn't end up with more ballots than voters as in the 21.

I'd bet a nickel this is a typical sleight-of-hand method to steal elections.

right.....

and handed out bananas to a cheering crowd.

It became commonplace during the 2,000 presidential election in Florida. That is how Nazi filth took over the nation.

There had better be some indictments or an through investigation to get to the bottom of this.
I know there little right wing tea bag governor will not do anything, but the citizens of this state should put pressure on those that knew, because it could be them next time.
This stuff should not be tolerated, this is a democracy not a third world dictatorship

Either way, it takes away from the Republican excuses for all of the voter suppression laws out there.

If it was deliberate (a 'harmless' dry run for future fraud), then it shows that their own people (probably) are the real election fraudsters.

If it was an accident, then it shows that snafus like this will affect vote tallies much more than any deliberate voter fraud. Why worry about one or two voters with fake ID's when you can much more easily have miscounted votes in the dozens?

Fuck Republicans and their effort to subvert democracy.

....and every time it seems the Dems response is to try to pretend it's not happening?

That's an intriguing idea. They could have overhead cameras the way dealers do in a casino.

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