Obama showing no votes at all in predominantly black areas
- added February 16, 2008
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- phillyharper
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This pro-Obama sticker clings to a fence in the Harlem district of New York, yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
A review by the New York Times found that in 80 of NYC's 6,106 election districts, including in districts where Obama ran very good races nearby, he received not a single vote. City election officials have confirmed that in their ongoing review, which won't be finished for weeks, they have found discrepancies the vote totals reported publicly â and unofficially â on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In Harlem for example, the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn â where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton â she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
A review by the New York Times found that in 80 of NYC's 6,106 election districts, including in districts where Obama ran very good races nearby, he received not a single vote. City election officials have confirmed that in their ongoing review, which won't be finished for weeks, they have found discrepancies the vote totals reported publicly â and unofficially â on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In Harlem for example, the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn â where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton â she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
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- phillyharper
- 7 months ago
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Maybe they've checked out obama.com and found it wanting on campaign policies...-
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- mischabarrett
- 7 months ago
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Is Karl Rove in charge of the New York election process?
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*at uroborus8* no, Jeb Bush is!!!
But honestly, voting machines' count of votes can't be relied upon. Especially after the 2004 election -
something definitely is amiss here, how could things change so dramatically from one night to the next?
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Doesn't this smell fishy to you?
FYI:
New York does not have paper ballots.
New York does not conduct manual audits.
New York elections are not secure and ballots are not reconciled.-
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- PoliticalGeek
- 7 months ago
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FISHY as all HELL!!!
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There's no way this is true.
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A couple of people I know who live in NY say that the way some ballots were set up, some people may have only voted for Obama and not the delegates, so their votes were not counted. I don't know how true that may be, but to me if so it only shows the lack of continuity in procedures and types of machines used that only cause confusion. I also heard that Clinton had some districts with zero votes as well, so the reasoning about not voting for delegates might be feasible.
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- JanforGore
- 7 months ago
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Oh, those wily Clintons...
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- GunnarHeinrich
- 7 months ago
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this is crazy, because my family members voted for obama and they told me everyone was at the polls waiting to vote, and then we heard on the news that hillary swept manhattan and now i see why.
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toya please show this to everybody in harlem including aunt annette.
laverne
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