Obama robbed of votes in NY

[Hortical]

OBAMA ROBBED IN NY By GINGER ADAMS OTIS document.write('');
February 16, 2008 -- Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly under recorded in several congressional districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said today Unofficial primary results gave Obama no votes in nearly 80 districts, including Harlem's 94th and other historically black areas - but many of those initial tallies proved to be wildly off the mark, the Board of Elections confirmed.

Truth is, in some districts getting a recount, the senator from Illinois is even close to defeating Hillary Clinton.

Initial results in the 94th District, for example, showed a 141-0 sweep for the New York senator, but Board of Elections spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez said today that the ongoing recount had changed the tally to 261-136.

As yet, none of the results has been certified, Vazquez said, adding that the Board of Elections had begun a painstaking ballot-by-ballot canvassing of all voting machines four days after the Feb. 5 election.
"We are doing a recanvass, and we will be counting all paper ballots, including absentee ones," Vazquez said.

"Some initial tallies had zeros, but it was most likely due to human error. Those were unofficial numbers, and no confirmed results have been released yet."

In a predominantly black Brooklyn district for which Clinton was given credit for a 118-0 victory on Primary Night, the Board of Elections' latest figures indicate that she may not even come out the winner - Obama currently has 116 votes to her 118.


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[Karl]

Perhaps New Mexico did the right thing? Get it right then make the announcement?

[Yuttie]

New Mexico was a disaster...

[Karl]

New Mexico was a disaster...

Explain?

[Yuttie]

Caucus Chaos: Long Waits, Ballot Shortages Mark N.M. Caucus

POSTED: 4:09 am MST February 6, 2008
UPDATED: 7:16 am MST February 7, 2008


For New Mexico's Democratic party faithful, Tuesday's caucus was a bittersweet experience.Voters began reporting long lines and waits to cast their vote by Tuesday afternoon in various locations across the state.Las Cruces reported long lines, but quick voting. With nearly a dozen polling places around the city, community members said long lines were only a problem when the polls opened.
But officials said some voters had to fill out provisional ballots, which did slow down the process at city hall and at a few elementary schools.About 200 voters were snaked inside a fire station garage in Gallup, waiting to vote at 2 p.m.The manager of the Gallup caucus site, Mary Ann Armijo, said about 500 people already had voted.Residents in San Juan County lined up as well to cast their ballot. People who came to San Juan College's Zia Room to vote complained of inadequate parking and not knowing where the Zia Room was.In Albuquerque, initial delays in some locations of around 40 minutes escalated, as voters who sent e-mails or calls to KOAT reported waits of several hours.As the day progressed, several locations began to run out of ballots.Among the locations that ran out of ballots were LBJ Middle School, Mitchell Elementary, Mary Ann Binford Elementary, James Monroe Middle School, Desert Ridge Elementary, Lowell Elementary, Chaparall Elementary and Church Of the Good Shepherd. Mona Martinez voted at the Church Of The Good Shepherd in the far northeast heights."When I arrived it was cold and it was getting dark and there was this huge line," she said.Mona joined the queue, but then came a second shock -- no official ballots; the poll workers were out. Instead she was handed a plain piece of paper."I got a Xerox paper," Martinez said. "In fact, some people were laughing and saying 'well, we could have just gone out and just gone to Kinko's,'" she said.Martinez voted but now she is worried that the makeshift ballot might not count. She is also angry."This really is an historical event and everybody should have known that it was going to bring a lot of people to vote," Martinez said.The Democratic Party printed additional ballots, and ballots were restored to all polling locations by evening.One of the major problems in Albuquerque was the traditional confusion that arises over the consolidation of precincts.Some callers told Action 7 News that they would be told to stand in line at one location, only to be told later they were in the wrong line.Voters from as many as a dozen precincts or more were funneled into one voting site.In Sandoval County, caucus voting at Rio Rancho High School -- the only polling location for Rio Rancho, New Mexico's third largest city -- was especially troublesome.Crowding problems started in the afternoon as kids were trying to leave school while hundreds of voters were trying to get into the school to vote.Sandoval County deputies and Rio Rancho police were directing traffic, but voters still had to contend with finding a parking spot, waiting in the cold and finally waiting inside the auditorium.After long waits to vote, some people were not able to leave, as they returned to the parking lot to find their cars were blocked in.At one point, nearly 2,000 voters were winding through the halls of Rio Rancho High School and packing the auditorium waiting -- in some cases for up to three hours -- to cast a vote.Rio Rancho police said the fire marshal watched the occupancy load very carefully and had to clear out the polling area.To keep people from standing outside in the cold, officials put people inside other buildings at the school, eventually moving them to the polls to cast their ballots.400 people were still waiting to cast their ballots at 8 p.m. Tuesday.They finally cleared all of the voters out of Rio Rancho High just after 9 p.m., two hours after the polls officially closed.Few in the City of Vision were willing to overlook the problems cause by cramming too many voters into one polling place."It's terrible. I can't believe it, who planned this?" questioned voter Laura Taber.Answers as to why this happened were hard to come by Wednesday. What came easily was a promise it won't happen again."It's absolutely something we're going to have to re-evaluate in the next caucus," said State Democratic Party Chairman Brian Colon. "We need more sites -- no question -- in Rio Rancho."

[Willi]

Mi tell Karl long time....