red states rule
11-21-2010, 06:21 AM
It is amazing how Republicans never "find" extra ballotes, votes and votuing machines
Two new voting machines were located last night in Buffalo, according to Sen.-elect Mike Gianaris, a Democratic attorney helping his party’s efforts in ballot counting.
Incumbent Democratic Sen. Antoine Thompson trails GOP challenger Mark Grisanti by 821 votes, but Gianaris said the new voting machines and how they’ve been handled are a “total disaster” and “complete mess,” adding that lawyers for Thompson are considering legal action that might force a complete recount of paper ballots optically scanned by the machines.
This would involve an amount of paper not seen in 50 years; elections in recent New York history have until this year been conducted with mechanical voting machines, not electronic machines that scan paper ballots. Such a recount would take a long time, to the dismay of people hoping the Senate will be clearly decided before January, when it is set to reconvene.
“It puts a cloud over the whole process,” Gianaris said of the machine irregularities. “And how we handle this is going to set the tone for around the state.”
Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Republicans, said Grisanti’s current lead is “insurmountable” given the number of un-counted absentee and other paper ballots. In recent days, Reif has attacked Democrats’ suggestions a full re-count is needed as Democrats being “desperate to portray the process as flawed because they don’t like the results.”
He said that there are no problems with the machine, and the found machines are “plan B” votes cast because people couldn’t use other, regular machines.
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/34585/senate-update-dems-say-new-machines-found-in-buffalo/
Two new voting machines were located last night in Buffalo, according to Sen.-elect Mike Gianaris, a Democratic attorney helping his party’s efforts in ballot counting.
Incumbent Democratic Sen. Antoine Thompson trails GOP challenger Mark Grisanti by 821 votes, but Gianaris said the new voting machines and how they’ve been handled are a “total disaster” and “complete mess,” adding that lawyers for Thompson are considering legal action that might force a complete recount of paper ballots optically scanned by the machines.
This would involve an amount of paper not seen in 50 years; elections in recent New York history have until this year been conducted with mechanical voting machines, not electronic machines that scan paper ballots. Such a recount would take a long time, to the dismay of people hoping the Senate will be clearly decided before January, when it is set to reconvene.
“It puts a cloud over the whole process,” Gianaris said of the machine irregularities. “And how we handle this is going to set the tone for around the state.”
Scott Reif, a spokesman for Senate Republicans, said Grisanti’s current lead is “insurmountable” given the number of un-counted absentee and other paper ballots. In recent days, Reif has attacked Democrats’ suggestions a full re-count is needed as Democrats being “desperate to portray the process as flawed because they don’t like the results.”
He said that there are no problems with the machine, and the found machines are “plan B” votes cast because people couldn’t use other, regular machines.
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/34585/senate-update-dems-say-new-machines-found-in-buffalo/