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05-07-2008, 07:29 AM
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Why did Lake County election results take so long?
I was watching the Clinton vs Obama Indiana primary results yesterday...why the delay for Lake County? Are politics there as crooked as my home state of Illinois? Were they trying to dig up votes for Obama?
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05-07-2008, 07:59 AM
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I was watching CNN last night right at midnight and the mayor of Hammond, Indiana was on and he said he and all the other mayors he had talked to had turned their election results into Laker County officials by 8:30, but that the county officials were counting the absentee ballots before they would release any results.
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05-07-2008, 08:54 AM
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It ALWAYS takes a long time.
Unfortunately, the national news has never focused their microscope on Lake County before ... so yes, when you have national news anchors sitting around, trying to fill the void with talk banter, while waiting on results from a county that most of them have never heard of before, it seemed like forever.
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05-07-2008, 09:23 AM
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the closeness of the race made it almost unbearable to wait that long on Lake County to start releasing returns. Inexcusable in the computer era.
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05-07-2008, 01:19 PM
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The excuse is that they had to count some 11000 absentee votes by hand first.
Once they found out that the nation was waiting on them, they release some other #'s. Pretty stupid if you ask me. Makes me wonder if they needed the nation's attention so much that they had to create a situation such as this one! D'OH!
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05-07-2008, 03:41 PM
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Yes, the ballots took a long time, but I only recall hearing one time that NW IN is on central time which puts them an hour behind most of the state.
I was just kind of happy IN was finally important in an election and especially my home county.
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05-07-2008, 05:04 PM
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I actually had an exit poller! I was aghast! It was an Obama exit poller, so he was a little crestfallen. Hillary won Bartholomew county, but as the NY Post headline said this morning, Toast
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05-10-2008, 10:26 AM
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Domergirl-------Who won Lake County?????
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05-11-2008, 03:21 PM
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Obama. It looks like Mayor Clay was holding back Gary's precincts to get some publicity. It was funny seeing the Mayor of Hammond (who looks like a frat guy) taking Mayor Clay to task on CNN.
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Defense Attorney: "Kindly speak English and drop the vernacular." Curley: "Vernacular? That's a doiby." -Disorder in the Court
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05-15-2008, 04:27 PM
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Lake county results ALWAYS come in that late. Only this time, the cable news networks saw it for once. Normally we never get any national coverage so that what was different.
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