Early returns: Castor easily winning, Martinez ahead

[FlaIndie]

Come on, Pubs, go for the guy you really want: Bill McCollum! Castor is taking about 3/4 of the votes in all the counties I've looked at so far.

The state of Florida DoS elections returns are down (no doubt to be tampered with ;) ), so I am looking at a few of the bigger counties. McCollum is behind in all of them so far. :(

http://elections.miamidade.gov/ele04244/keyrace.html (not showing results yet)

http://www.pbcelections.org/ElectionResults/2004/PRIMARY/pri0804_dtl.htm Nada as well.

http://www.ocfelections.com/RESULTS/08312004/

http://www.votehillsborough.org/Realtime.aspx

http://www.srqelections.com/results.htm Nothing up yet.

http://www.elections.alachua.fl.us/results.html

http://www.co.leon.fl.us/elect/results/2004psummary.htm

http://duvalelections.coj.net/8-31-2004.asp?

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Anybody believe BBV will give it to Martinez

They are testing the machines for the gen. election.

[papau]

2. Yes - polls showed him 2% behind - so this is an excellent test of fraud

Indeed I expect him to win by 3% as they test a 5% shift via fraud.

But then my tinfoil hat is on rather tight tonight!

:-)

[FlaIndie]

3. McCollum ahead in Hillsborough.

The other counties are close. He might squeak this one out just yet!

[King of New Orleans]

4. DOE working for me. Castor way ahead. Martinez looks ahead too

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/

[FlaIndie]

5. damn Mozilla...

I just used the link in a different browser and, sure enough, the results showed up.

[sidestreamer]

8. Damn

This is exactly what I feared: all Mel needed to do was say "Bush likes me!" and now all the rank and file of the Republican party is boosting him up.... it's as if he's taking a page from Ginny Browne-Waite's book.

[King of New Orleans]

6. 11% Castor 65% Deutsch 21% Penellas 10%

though none from Palm, Broward, or Dade yet.

Still Castor is totally dominating the rest of the state.

[King of New Orleans]

7. It's going to be Castor vs Martinez

Castor will win by a huge margin even with Deutsch winning Broward by a big margin. Probably about 60-30.

Martinez will win by a solid but less impressive margin -- about 43-34.