Funny stuff going on down in PBC

[Smith4506]

Read the story here.

What do you think?

[Stoid]

That’s she’s an idiot if it is true. The last thing anyone should be doing now is giving even the appearance of impropriety.

But I thought she was cool yesterday when she said she’d go to jail to do the count.

stoid

[Tejota]

I’m not at all surprised that republicans have charged one of the democrats on the Palm Beach canvassing board of partisanship. I’d be surprised if they hadn’t the way things have been going.

The charge against Miss Roberts “is not a witch hunt,” said Mark Hoch, administrator for the county’s Republican Party.
“We have complaints coming out of the woodwork, and most of the things we look at are unsubstantiated,” Mr. Hoch said. “Carol Roberts, though, can be seen as truly partisan.”
(emphasis added)

Consider the source. Without any other evidence to go on, this is as likely to be him lying as her misbehaving.

or this:

On one occasion, observer John Grotta said in a sworn statement, Miss Roberts looked at a ballot and said " ‘Unfortunately, the corners aren’t detached,’ as she was referring to a ballot that would have been a vote for Vice President Gore."

The article doesn’t say whether that ballot ended up in the Gore pile or not, but it implies that it was marked as non-Gore.

Now the way I read that. She was clarifying to someone else that while the intent of the voter is clear. The ballot doesn’t meet the standards for calling it a vote.

(incidently, in Texas, that would have meet the standard for a vote)

It seems likely she wanted it to be a valid Gore vote, but decided that she couldn’t justify calling it that.

Impartial is how you ACT, not how you think.

tj

[Smith4506]

 Carol Roberts, a de facto appointee to the three-member elections canvassing board, is accused in the filings of asking a Democratic observer to the count whether ballots should count and that she "twisted the ballots and poked her finger directly in sections of, and aggressively handled, the ballots."

 In one case, a worker refused to recount a stack of ballots that contained Bush votes, according to observer Mark Klimer.
 Mr. Klimer's statement included the accusation that Miss Roberts picked up ballots from a stack that was to be evaluated later by the entire board and interspersed them with a stack of Gore votes.
 He also said the ballot evaluation was inconsistent. Some ballots judged as Gore votes did not meet the agreed standards for a valid vote, the West Palm Beach banker said.

If these charges are true, then the machine count should stand.