Puerto Rico -- don't count on the recount soon
AP reports: The State Elections Commission suspended until Monday the vote recount pending the resolution of the judicial process in federal court about the mixed votes.
The director of the vote review for the SEC, Benicio Carmona, announced through spokespeople that the work would remain suspended until Monday, causing cheers and applause from the election of fficals of the Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party, who have stayed at the SEC Election Operations Center.
The officials from the NPP table had abandoned their work in the morning per instructions from their election commissioner Thomas Rivera Schatz to not count mixed ballots, contrary to the order from the Supreme Court to do the review and the recount simultaneously and not adjudicate the controversial mixed votes. -- Recount is suspended until Monday
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On the night of elections Rivera Schatz said his candidate would win whichever way it took. Well we are now seeing which way it will take. Rivera Schatz does not explain that his candidate for Governor, Pedro Rosello, won TWICE with the mixed vote ballots in '92 and '96. He and Rosello seem not to understand what is going on. Over 40 officials from that administration were processed by law and found guilty of theft, big theft, large theft, jacunda theft...
Either Rosello didn't know or he did... If he didn't know, it was his business to know they were stealing millions... if he did know, he did not do anything to stop them... And he wants four more years to "serve" the motherland, yeah right! He wants to "serve" us right into non existence.
Now that the NPP loses with the mixed votes the NPP wants them outlawed. Get a life! Rivera Schatz is just the mouth for the NPP way of doing things: by force, by demand, by stealing the election, by denying us our right to have our votes counted. RS is known in several circles as Rivera Hitler... I wonder why.
Posted by: José Oquendo | November 28, 2004 7:34 PM
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NPP won TWICE with the mixed vote ballots in '92 and '96.This time is different. The NPP has a bonafide claim "One man, One vote". Simple math X X not X X X. Sorry,those who did not follow Kindergarten instructions will suffer the fate of not being consider in society as adults."REMEMBER FLORIDA" Bush vs Gore".
It is time for some Puerto Rican voters to learn how to cast a vote or their ballots won't be counted.This is the real issue in this elections beyond any passionate or political preference or distraction. No matter who wins and who's what or who.
If we are to blame robbers let's blame the Puerto Rican Independence Party who obtain large sums of cash from the electoral fund without having the 100,000 voters claimed during the elections. This is truly a gunpoint assault to taxpayers.
But, wait... the Popular Democratic Party will help them with their reinscription. Good partners make good business. Two against one.
Let the Federal Courts decide what's fair.
Posted by: Hector Soto | November 29, 2004 7:45 PM