Bag of Ballots Surfaces in Connecticut . . .
. . . where, it just so happens, there is a close race for Governor — and the Republican is barely ahead.
In what has become one of the stranger twists in an already bizarre Governor’s race, a bag of uncounted ballots was found in Bridgeport Thursday night.
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[Bridgeport GOP Chairman Marc] Delmonico said Democrats asked to have several people deputized to count the uncounted ballots, but Republicans objected, claiming that wasn’t proper procedure in the vote-counting process.
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Wednesday, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz declared Democrat Dan Malloy the “unofficial” winner, but numbers released by her office show Republican Tom Foley still leading Malloy by more than 8,000 votes. Those totals do not include any of the vote totals from the City of Bridgeport.
Hey, look, I am sure there are a few Republican ballots in that bag as well.
Just to make it look good.
Via Hot Air Headlines.
Brazen, aren’t they? I blame Bush. And, Diebold.
JD (121437) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:03 aminsty said the other day something like… funny how all the close ones always come out for the democrat.
Seriously, since bush v. gore, can you think of the last time a republican won a squeaker?
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:14 amWhat will it take to put an end to this kind of swill? Do we have to start prosecuting the CANDIDATES when their partisans pull this crap?
C. S. P. Schofield (e4bd33) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:16 amAnd I don’t get no stinking hat tip?
https://patterico.com/2010/11/04/george-w-bush-damn-right-i-approved-of-waterboarding/#comment-716509
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! 🙂
peedoffamerican (aa51bb) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:26 amI prefer a public hanging. Additionally, the only ballots that count will be from the opposition party.
Darin H (c335c2) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:35 ampeedoff
i am guessing patterico has not yet read all 300 comments in that thread. i was thinking of writing something and i had no idea you wrote that.
Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:40 amAW, please don’t take this wrong. Did you see my smiley face? Meant that I was jerking his chain LOL.
BTW, I have enjoyed your posts while he was slacking off and going on vacation.
🙂 for the slacking off part.
peedoffamerican (aa51bb) — 11/5/2010 @ 7:45 amThe Chicago Way comes to Connecticut!
daleyrocks (940075) — 11/5/2010 @ 8:08 amDemocrats in Bridgeport pulling that old bag [box]of ballots trick? Brings back memories of Tammany Hall and Chicago politics.
Longwalker (996c34) — 11/5/2010 @ 8:09 amIt’s worse than you think. There “weren’t enough official ballots” for Bridgeport voters, so a judge said they could PHOTOCOPY ballots and use those.
Anyone want to speculate on the dangers this presents?
Kevin M (298030) — 11/5/2010 @ 8:29 amOr is it opportunities?
Kevin M (298030) — 11/5/2010 @ 9:09 am“Dumber than a sack of ballots” still should be part of the lexicon, but isn’t. Yet.
Slartibartfast (dce15e) — 11/5/2010 @ 9:16 amSounds like another use of the Chicago version of the Golden Rule; “Do unto others before they do it unto You.”
Bar Sinister (d47790) — 11/5/2010 @ 9:33 amSo Bridgeport is just waiting to determine how many votes they need?
JD (85b089) — 11/5/2010 @ 9:38 amDoes anyone know if “Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz” was a beneficiary of the Soros-sponsored Secretary of State Project?
AD-RtR/OS! (8cbfdc) — 11/5/2010 @ 10:30 amDidn’t something like this happen in Franken’s case. If they aren’t found on election day, they shouldn’t be counted. At least, not unless it’s an equal number of ballots for each candidate.
Think I also read somewhere that more than one ballot was given to some voters. WTF? Sorry, if I’m not allowed to say that.
PatAZ (9d1bb3) — 11/5/2010 @ 1:54 pmAnother bag of ballots was found in Bob “the Strangler” Etheridge’s district where Renee Ellmers leads. These mysterious bags of ballots have a habit of turning up in Democrat areas during close elections.
Coincidence? You be the judge.
daleyrocks (940075) — 11/5/2010 @ 2:51 pmCorrection – Instead of bag “o” votes, make that previously unreported early voting results. Heh!
daleyrocks (940075) — 11/5/2010 @ 2:54 pmAD #15: The Secretary of State Project, funded by everyone’s favorite SS collaborator (amazing what you can do to your bank balance with a few gold teeth and the magic of 60 years of compound interest), has only supported a small number of candidates, and I don’t believe Bysiewicz was one of them. However, she’s certainly is a fellow traveler.
For the record, Blofeld is only one donor to the SOSP. Most of the others are Wall Street bailout babies — it may be out of shared ideology, or it may be an sub rosa “tax” on the handouts.
This year, these were the SOSP candidates:
http://www.secstateproject.org/races/
Of those, only the MN and CA candidates won, the others were beaten. sorry ’bout that, eh. The MN guy, Ritchie, is the guy who kept counting and counting until Franken won, and he’s trying to do the same thing in the gubernatorial race.
Here are there past winners:
http://www.secstateproject.org/results/
They Orwell their losers, which they haven’t yet done for their five 2010 SoS wannabees who lost, so I wasn’t able to find a comprehensive list. These essays and news stories might help.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Secretary_of_State_Project
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/04/soros-sponsored-candidates-ballot-initiatives-election-day/print
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15105.html
By the way, the “discovery” of bags of mysterious ballots happened in the last Washington State gubernatorial election. Just like terrorists quickly shared IED trigger innovations from one theater to another, it’s clear that Democrat Secretaries of State quickly share techniques, tactics and procedures of vote fraud from state to state — whether they’re actually Blofeld’s stooges or not.
Our side can’t just win races. We have to transcend the margin of mendacity.
Kevin R.C. O'Brien (b97e79) — 11/5/2010 @ 4:01 pmThe ability of Democrats to “find” ballots after the fact in close elections and then job recounts makes me think that Brad Friedman’s crusade against electronic voting is all part of a cause to perpetuate the election fraud which is actually occurring as we speak rather than to eliminate it. It seems a little tougher to manufacture electronic votes after the fact than paper votes, but that’s just MHO.
daleyrocks (940075) — 11/5/2010 @ 6:15 pmI’m sick of these ballot stories, starting with the hanging chads, and right through Coleman/Franken to this. These sorts of discoveries, even when they are “innocent” but incompetent, erode confidence in the system.
It should be pretty easy to fix this sort of thing.
If ballots are “found” (or just found) in a “safe,” in a “bag,” in the “back of someone’s” car, in a “forgotten corner of the office,” sure we’ll count them. But we will also fine the custodian $1k for each ballot (heck, maybe higher to create a disincentive for the Machines to indemnify fall guys), and classify it as a felony with a mandatory jail term not to be under three months.
I think that will create a disincentive for either party’s machines to use that angle. And will also provide incentive for the average election office to take damn serious diligence in the execution of their mission.
Donchathink?
Bill (a3fc40) — 11/6/2010 @ 11:43 am