The New York Post By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
February 17, 2008 -- Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly underrecorded in several 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 yesterday.
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 said.
In some districts getting a recount, the senator from Illinois is even closer to defeating Hillary Clinton.
Initial results in the 94th, for example, showed a 141-0 sweep for Hillary Clinton, but the recount changed the tally to 261-136.
As yet, none of the results have been certified, but a ballot-by-ballot canvassing of all voting machines has begun, a board spokesperson said.
Brooklyn City Councilman Charles Barron called the understated figures "outrageous."
"I think this is an all-out effort to stop a campaign that is about to make history and render America's first black president," he said. "We need some kind of independent or federal agency to investigate this."
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IN WNY WHEN I WENT TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARY, AFTER HAVING CHANGED MY ADDRESS A YEAR AGO, MY NAME WAS NOT LISTED IN THE SIGN IN BOOK. INSTEAD OF ASKING ME TO VOTE ON AN AFFIDAVIT, THEY SAID I MUST BE INDEPENDENT! I HAD THE NEW CARD WITH THE PARTY AFFILIATION AND POLLING PLACE AT HOME AND IT WAS CLOSE TO NINE..SO I LEFT! I WAS VOTING FOR OBAMA. WHEN I CALLED THE ELECTION BUREAU THE NEXT DAY, THEY SAID I WAS REGISTERED AS DEMOCRAT AND WENT TO THE CORRECT PLACE TO VOTE AND IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE MY NAME, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE PAPER AFFIDAVIT. I SAID THE PERSON WAS RATHER ELDERLY, AND THEY RESPONDED AS OFFENDED... THAT THE ELDERLY PEOPLE THEY USE SERVE A GREAT PURPOSE FOR THEM! IF A GREAT PURPOSE WAS TO DENY MY RIGHT TO VOTE AND STATE I MUST BE AN INDEPENDENT AND NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT A PAPER AFFIDAVIT WAS AVAILABLE TO ME....THEN THAT TELLS YOU HOW NY STATE LEGALLY COLLECTS VOTES....WHAT A RIP OFF!
Hey, obama Man, all you have to do to win is to plant you skinny ass in Westchester County and ask Sen Clinton's peoples what she has done for them lately.
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