BUSBY/BILBRAY ELECTION IN DOUBT: New Numbers & Voting Machine Sleepovers

[BradBlog]

BUSBY/BILBRAY ELECTION IN DOUBT: Uncounted Ballots Reported by Registrar is Decreased by 2000, but Number of Votes in Busby/Bilbray Race Increases by 8000!

I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this. There always is.

As ever, it underscores the need for verifiable elections, and begins to remind us that the folks who give a damn about this down there in San Diego County better damned well be keeping an eye on the chain of custody for those paper ballots and "paper trails" as they are being theoretically "counted" by the SD County Registrar of Voters.

According to this web page from the SD County's Registrar of Voters office, as of 5pm last night, the number of uncounted absentee and provisional ballots in the entire county of SD has decreased by 2,000 from the reported 68,500 that were announced as "still to be counted" on election night.

The number of votes in the now-questionable Busby/Bilbray U.S. House (CA-50) special election, however, has been increased by 8,000 votes.

Since the number of votes in the CA-50 race is a smaller subset of the total votes within SD County, one would think that if 2,000 absentee or provisionals were counted for the entire county, the number of votes in CA-50 might go up by a fraction of that number. Instead, they've gone up by 8,000, according to the county's website!

So far, I've been unable to get any comments from "quotable sources" at the Registrar's office on the reported updates. Very few in the office, apparently, are allowed to speak on record to the press for some reason.

As mentioned, no doubt there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this. Right? It's just that you and I may never know it. And, if we do, the election officials will likely never have to prove that their explanation -- or the veracity of their reported vote counts -- is valid. To anybody.

URL: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002934.htm

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...ALSO...

BUSBY/BILBRAY ELECTION IN DOUBT: The Diebold Machine Sleepovers at Poll Workers Houses...

San Diego County poll workers write to The BRAD BLOG confirming their experience taking hackable Diebold voting machines home alone for days and weeks prior to the election...

FULL STORY:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002930.htm

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[IndyOp]

1. 6/8/6 at 5:00 pm 66,500 absentee & provisionals were not yet counted

On Edit: I initially posted results from the primary - not the special election - and the folks downthread corrected me. Thanks! Here are the special election results.

Please note that as of 6/8/6 at 5:00 pm 66,500 absentee & provisionals were not yet counted -- absentees (according to some folks) tend to break for the GOP, but provisionals (I would argue) tend to break for the Dems.

I heard on Thom Hartmann today that the site was to be updated today at 5:00 pm, but it has not been. FINAL NOTE: The 66,500 votes not yet counted are for San Diego COUNTY -- we cannot tell how many of the uncounted votes are from the 50th district -- the number could be much smaller.

So, I think we haven't yet counted the votes. COUNT THE VOTES!

I think I've located the correct page:
http://www.sdvote.org/election/primary.xml

COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO
PRIMARY ELECTION
JUNE 6, 2006
THESE RESULTS ARE UNOFFICIAL
Last updated on: 06-08-06 at: 17:00:20

There are approximately 66500 Absentee / Provisional ballots still to be counted

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE 50TH DISTRICT - (RUN-OFF)
Precincts: 500
Counted: 500
Percentage: 100.0%

Vote for: 1

BRIAN BILBRAY - REP 64554 49.50%
FRANCINE BUSBY - DEM 59021 45.26%
W. GRIFFITH - IND 4846 3.72%
PAUL KING - LIB 1995 1.53%

[Jersey Devil]

2. Those are the primary election numbers

There were two elections Tuesday. One was a primary election for each party. Those are the numbers you posted.

The other election was the special general election for the congressional seat. Busby lost. We can analyze, find out what was done wrong, but she lost.

[robbedvoter]

4. Uh, do we EVER challenge stolen elections? EVER?

Like civilized countries do - Ukraine, Romania? How do you know she lost if the vote count is doubtful?

[IndyOp]

5. Self-delete. The information is in my post above.

[Greeby]

3. That's the vote from the all-party primary

Unless a candidate gets 50% of all votes outright, then the top vote-getter of each party goes forward to the run-off

[Mr_Spock]

7. Edit

I see your update

[roguevalley]

9. they need to explain under oath why machines were taken home.

will they ever do that, Brad? By the way, thank you so much for all that you do on this issue.

[leftchick]

6. thank you Brad!

damn!

[Nikki Stone 1]

8. kick

:kick:

[Me.]

10. ?

Busby has conceded and apart from why when there were so many uncounted ballots, if the count goes in her favor, could she take the seat?

[Sydnie]

11. A concession is just words

it has no legal standing that I know of. If she is found to be the winner by the votes cast, she should get the seat.

[texpatriot2004]

12. Thank you Brad for this update. nm

[Wilms]

13. K&R n/t

[Tin Man]

14. K&R - Registrar must explain discrepancy between SD & C A-50 updates

...might simply be a transcription error. Nevertheless, the SD Registrar needs to explain the discrepancy in the updated returns noted by BradBlog.