House Dismisses Challenge of Outcome in Florida Race

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Congressional Quarterly

By Molly Hooper, CQ Staff

The House on Monday dismissed a challenge filed by candidate Christine Jennings and affirmed that Republican Vern Buchanan was the rightful winner of their 2006 election.

By voice vote, the House adopted a resolution (H Res 989) closing the books on a bitterly contested race that led Florida to ban the use of touch-screen voting machines in Florida.

Buchanan had been certified the winner, by 369 votes, of the Sarasota-based 13th Congressional District seat.

More than 18,000 ballots were recorded as having no choice made in that race. Jennings said she was certain that machine glitches were responsible for at least some of those thousands of no-vote ballots.

Read more: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000002676168

[davidinalameda]

1. no one condemning the House Democrats for this?

wow

or is it just early

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. Even Christine Jennings is staying silent

[Kingofalldems]

2. Couldn't wait to post the bad news could you?

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. If there was good news on this matter, I would post that too

[Peace Patriot]

3. We need to ask ourselves why our Democratic leadership is protecting...

DIEBOLD (now called "Premier"): During the 2004 election, headed by Wally O'Dell, a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser (a Bush "Pioneer," right up there with Ken Lay), who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004";

ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture), whose initial funder and major investor is rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things); and

SEQUOIA: The third major election theft industry player, which hired California Secretary of State, Republican Bill Jones, and his chief aide, Alfie Charles, to peddle their machines--an example of the utter corruption of the electronic voting scene, as well as its deep ties to the Republican Party.

These are the people who 'counted' 80% of the nation's votes in the 2004 election, and are 'counting' even more of them now--as the result of a $3.9 billion electronic voting boondoggle from the Anthrax Congress, which spread the scourge of trade secret, proprietary vote counting, with virtually no audit/recount controls, and the accompanying corruption of county/state election officials, throughout the land.

How can Democratic leaders support this? It is truly mind-boggling. And it is the heart of the matter, as far as I'm concerned. When we have plumbed this mystery, we will know all.

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Recommended: "The Trouble With Touchscreens," by Dan Rather, www.HD.net.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. House Leadership? How about the rank-and-file Democratic members of the House?

Why did they not demand a recorded vote on this?