It is ironic that Joe Martinez hired the absentee ballot queen Sasha Tirador to run his campaign and now he is contesting Mayor Carlos Gimenez's absentee ballots saying he won't concede until the fraud investigation is over. That will add pressure to the investigation. Good! Former (I am happy to say 'former') Commissioner Martinez: See it through to the end!
Maybe Joe has visions of the Xavier Suarez removal as mayor of the City of Miami dancing in his head. Could that happen again? Only in Miami.
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Sasha is the queen of Boleteras. She can arm Joe Martinez with enough insider info to scuttle fraud forever. She owes it to him.
Martinez is in denial and being fed by vicious Rivera/PBA. Martinez lost early voting and election day what else does he need to understand that the people do not want him! Get out!
Carollo didn't win the vote but he became Mayor because of absentee ballot fraud. Could the same thing happen here that the second vote getter gets the prize if the investigation widens and implicates the man at the top?
I don't think Xavier Suarez was ever accused of fraud himself.
Suarez was never accused of fraud. It was Humberto Hernandez who committed it. But X paid the price.
Oh, Joe. Get over it. You lost. Seijas lost. Form a 12 step group. Dorrin Rolle and James Burke will come. The PBA will buy coffee and donuts.
If you take out the absentee ballot results from the Mayor's race, Gimenez gets 49.4% of the vote - not enough to claim victory.
Getting a judge to toss all of those absentee ballots because of the antics of Tio Robaina and Daisy Cabrera would be an expensive uphill legal battle.
Maybe the mystery person who hired Joe Carillo will step up with the big bucks.
Little guys with big Egos dont go quietly.
If you toss out the absentee ballots, then Lopez-Cantera doesn't win either,apparently.
Mmmm, could be a long election cycle in Miami. Only in Miami.
If you toss out absentee ballots, how many will Joe himself lose?
It isn't a matter of how many votes or what percentages. What happened in '97 in Miami was that the victors were declared null, and after having been sworn in, were removed from office. It could happen.
ES&S D200 Optical Scanners:
"Candice Hoke, a Cleveland-Marshall College of Law professor and an expert on voting equipment, credited local election officials for the rigorous testing that helped discover the problems. The logging issue, while seemingly technical, is a fundamental question of integrity, she said."
"If someone were to hack into the machine, if the logging is not secure and doesn't protect it from rollbacks, that would allow someone to tamper with it and leave no trace," Hoke said."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-22/defective-voting-machines/52172034/1
Pay attention, November's rolling in like an angry storm.
Property appraiser Pedro Garcia should sue. A judge would force open all the secrets of the boleteras. If this isn't cleaned up it will discourage even more people from voting. It makes me sick to think judges are elected by elderly voters manipulated by brokers and lobbyists. The Dade County Bar and Florida Bar should join the lawsuit too.
We need to have election monitors from the United Nation monitor our elections like third world countries. I think that President Carter and a delegation from African and Central America are available for the November elections. God help us!
The FBI needs to come in to investigate how Miami politicians have perfected absentee ballot electioneering.. It's always the Feds investigating in Miami. How many county and city depts have already come under scrutiny?
I absolutely believe Xavier Suarez was part of the absentee voter fraud that cost him that Miami mayoral election. Just because our inept and corrupt prosecutor Fernandez-Rundle didn't file charges does not mean Suarez wasn't involved. She hasnt acted on numerous instances of political corruption.
Interesting:
Federal agency finds defects in ballot scanners
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-22/defective-voting-machines/52172034/1
It's not just the mayoral race, is it? Take a look at the numbers for State Senate District 39. As they used to say on Laugh-In back in the day, "Verrrry interesting!"
Did anyone else see Alina Hudak, Russell Benford, John Renfrow, and a gaggle of other county staffers at the Gimenez victory party? I DID!
If the egg lady won she would have scrambled them up but good.
Alina Hudak, Russell Benford, John Renfrow, and a gaggle of other county staffers were simply paying homage to the king.
Someone wrote in comments (somewhere) that Renier Diaz de la Portilla won. It is my understanding that Manny Diaz Jr. won.
Think about what a great dramatic movie would be if it turned out that Martinez committed the absentee ballot fraud for Gimenez.
First Martinez says he did not believe that Gimenez would do such a thing. Then a week before the election; poll takers tell him he will loose. He switches his story saying that Gimenez could be guilty of such manipulation.
Come election day night Martinez now uses his backup strategy of setting up boleteras on behalf of Gimenez to declare the fraud to get him back on the November ballot.
At this point for the final climatic battle Gimenez and the League of Bramen fight Martinez with Rivera and the PBA.
Sound very believable.
Alina Hudak is now showing up at campaign events? It should be abundantly clear to everyone now: Hudak is a political hack. Does anybody have any pics of her there?
Helen Williams got a bigger percentage of the vote in 2008 than Joe Martinez got in 2012. I sure wish Helen had challenged the 2008 votes back when she lost to Alvarez. If she had, she probably would have become mayor and would be going into her second term right now...and "boleteros" as we know them would never even have existed!
To the anon above....
I always thought that Martinez was behind the whole boletera debacle to set up Gimenez because deep down he knew he didnt have a chance of winning...What a coincidence that this "investigator" just happened to be following the boletera so who hired him???? Either Martinez or Rivera is behind this whole trap to make Gimenez look bad....
Get over it Joe, you were out Trumped by Mayor Carlos Gimenez's- no punt intended;)
Say what you will, but keep the pressure on, Joe Martinez. The machinery is not reliable. The streets are littered with filthy boleteros and AB's are out of hand. It is time to topple the Banana Republic-ans and maybe even send a few folks to jail. I am thinking there was a guy in a pink Hawaiian shirt out at the West Kendall Library that would look good in an orange jump suit. Of course, Lynda would have to get another consultant.
Little Joe should join Jesse Jackson Jr. At the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Perhaps the power of one addict helping another will be without parallel.
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