NOTE* - TURNOUT PERCENTAGES WILL SHOW OVER 100% DUE TO A TWO PAGE
BALLOT. THE TABULATION SYSTEM (GEMS) PROVIDES VOTER TURNOUT AS EQUAL
TO THE TOTAL CARDS CAST IN THE ELECTION DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF
REGISTERED VOTERS.  ALSO NOTE THAT SOME VOTERS CHOSE NOT TO RETURN BY
MAIL THE SECOND CARD CONTAINING THE AMENDMENTS.

T

Huck

Then there is Gertrude Walker, the 32-year-veteran election supervisor
of St. Lucie County, who has spent much of the last two weeks
explaining why her office completely botched the count. She admitted
that her office had acted in “haste” in issuing election results, and
that “mistakes were made.” Among her mistakes was failing to count 40
of the 94 precincts under her jurisdiction on Election Night — and
then counting the other 54 twice. Indeed. On Friday, her office
announced it had “discovered” 304 additional early votes left in a
box. None had been counted

But Walker wasn’t available for comment. She has been hospitalized for
unknown reasons.

The news was one reason that Florida’s secretary of state has
dispatched a team of experts to audit St. Lucie’s procedures. The St.
Lucie Election Canvassing Board voted to approve a complete recount of
all the early ballots. It began the recount on Saturday but stopped it
at 8 p.m. because the county building’s security system was set to be
switched on later that night. Some people complained that the alarms
have been switched off in the past to allow county business to
continue after hours, but their complaints were ignored. The recount
resumed on Sunday morning, but it missed the noon deadline to submit
the county’s final returns to Florida’s secretary of state.

So, on Sunday, the previous results—the ones showing Democrat Murphy
ahead—were sent to Florida’s secretary of state for certification.

Walker has a history of abetting or ignoring sloppy election
procedures. In 2003, a state-appointed task force of six election
experts found that Mariam Oliphant, the then–Supervisor of Elections
in Broward County, was incapable of running her office and counting
votes correctly. Among other problems, she had hired a homeless man
who refused to count certain ballots.

The task force recommended removing Oliphant from office. The only
dissenter was Gertrude Walker, even though local NAACP chapters had
urged Oliphant, who like Walker is African American, to step down from
her position for reasons of incompetence.

This the same county where the counters used the "they meant to vote
for Gore" reasoning during counting.  You know, back when Bush stole
the election.

They need to keep incompetent blacks up north to improve the average
IQ and stop reducing the average of the South. It's an Obieplot.

Hugh