That senate election won by Democrate was very interesting. Race won early in the morning by 500 votes all comming from an Indian Reservation. All democratic votes. All kinds of irregularites comming out of the reservation voting. Least of which their was the voting office was open a lot longer then the law allowed. Plus voter fraud indicated. Tom D the now former head of the senate had to know about this. It is is home state but he will deny it which would be another lie. Only question is will there be a recount which that states law allows? Last question will this election go to the court system for voter fraud? The end never justifies the means never.
Thune is mulling a recount today. If he asks for one, they have to give it because the margin of victory was less than 0.25%. I'd be surprised if they don't demand a recount. No word from any of the major outlets on voter fraud, but if any is uncovered I'm sure that it will be a major story.
500 votes isn't much so it could make a difference but I don't know for sure. They said it will take a week to figure this all out because there going to go through the voter records from Tuesday and make sure the people that voted absentee also didn't vote yesterday and if they did then there absentee ballot gets thrown out. I think Johnson will still squeak it out but maybe the gap will get a little closer.
Johnson took a page from the Bush playbook by declaring himself the winner. Perception is largely reality, it will be hard for Thune to come out ahead unless the absentee votes turn it.
Apparently, the polls in Shannon County opened one hour earlier than they should have. Have you seen evidence of election day voter fraud? It's up to John Thune. The difference lies within South Dakota's "recount margin," but a candidate seeking a recount must petition to initiate the count.
I don't mind Thune asking for a recount but if it comes out with similar numbers than I really hope he concedes immediatly and not drag this on like Gore did in Florida 2 years ago. And let a close race like this be a lesson to the lazy bums who didn't vote. In a state that only has 400,000 registered voters each vote means alot more than if it were in a huge state like California.
Thune should ask for a recount if it's that close, if for no other reason than to make sure they counted right. And then they should be done with it. We had about 35 percent voter turnout in Florida I believe (after everybody was predicting closer to 65%). I'm taking this as a cue to tell 65% of the people who complain about Big Brother Bush to shut their cake-holes over the next four years.
the situation in SD seems different than Florida because there isn't confusion over ballots but I don't want to relive that war. And SD did go out and vote, turn out was huge
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't attempting to parralel the situation in SD with the mess we made of things down here a couple of years ago. By all reasonable accounts, this was very simply a very close race. If it's up to Thune to ask for a recount, he should do so, if for no other reason than to satisfy any lingering doubts over whether there were any mistakes made. It's his right under state law apparently and I think he should use it.
Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace If you bothered to read the news, you'd already know about the two-week old FBI investigation into massove absentee fraud, the piles of absentee requests they have impounded because the signatures are identical and many are from dead people and the woman who is now in jail who was a paid employee of the Democratic party and who was caught by the police while burning a stack of forged ballots. Jeez, you guys must TRY not to read the papers. Hell, it was even in the New York Times. It's a matter of record. Look it up your own damn self.
Re: Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace Bill, with all due respect, you're asking a south Florida Democrat to READ?
Re: Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace What? Fake riot? We don't riot. We hire high power lawyers with all of our stock fraud earnings. That's what you wanted to hear, isn't it?
I understand the recount is automatic when it is that close. Remember, election laws are local (state) and most are poorly written (like this post).
Re: Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace I know there was some stuff going on before the election, he made it sound like there were election day shenanigans, which I couldn't uncover.
Re: Re: Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace Sorry to ruin your day, but I'm not a Democrat. I even voted for a few Republicans on Tuesday (but don't tell Joseph). Imagine that.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace Hey, you're on the road to recovery! You're the second guy who has gone out of his way to state that he is "not a Democrat" in response to my posts today. It's becoming a national trend! Nobody wants to admit being a Democrat anymore...it's become tainted like the word "liberal".
Must be like having sex with fat girls...fun and all, but you really don't want your friends to know.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: South Dakota disgrace I'm a liberal, not a Democrat. I've always been a liberal, I've never been a Democrat.
Not that I personally would ever have sex with a fat girl or fat girls, but it is very true that you don't want your friends to know. If one was to tell them, it would be very difficult to have to deal with all the time.