As numbers shift, Lynch might be GOP primary winner without recount
by George Bennett | February 3rd, 2010
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Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher said Joe Budd lost 9 votes when elections officials re-checked their numbers early this morning in response to discrepancies between the number of ballots cast and the number of voters who signed in at precincts. Bucher said a few votes had been double-counted in precincts that used two optical scanners rather than one.
New numbers still haven’t been posted on Palm Beach County’s elections Web site, but Bucher this morning said Budd got 2,585 votes in Palm Beach County (down from 2,594 posted Tuesday night), Lynch got 2,547 (unchanged from Tuesday night) and Curt Price got 1,195 (down from 1,199).
Lynch beat Budd by 84 votes in Broward County.
Based on the latest numbers, when totals from Palm Beach County’s 263 precincts are added to totals from Broward County’s 93 precincts, Lynch leads Budd by 46 votes out of 8,160 cast. That’s a 0.56 percent difference. State law requires a machine recount if the difference is 0.5 percent or less.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 9:50 am
Peculiar… these “glitches” in totals surface every single election.
I cannot help but recall this notable quote…
“He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything.”
This tidbit comes from none other than Joseph Stalin himself.
Think about it…
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 am
[...] As numbers shift, Lynch might be GOP primary winner without recount [...]
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:27 am
[...] The reports of the lastest numbers, when totals from Palm Beach County’s 263 precincts are added to totals from Broward County’s 93 precincts, Lynch leads Budd by 46 votes out of 8,160 cast. [...]