{"id":3782,"date":"2006-11-12T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2012-09-07T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T19:29:57","slug":"jeb-bush-admits-problems-with-florida-us-house-race-featuring-18000-missing-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush Admits Problems with Florida U.S. House Race Featuring 18,000 Missing Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>After the state’s initial denial that there were any problems in Florida’s 13th Congressional District U.S. House race, even Jeb is now admitting there may be problems “worth investigating.” From AP…<\/a><\/p>\n

Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday the unusually high number of voters who didn’t choose a candidate in a congressional race in Sarasota County was worth investigating, and said the state has “the law in place to do it right.”<\/p>\n

“This is obviously something we need to look into, and very quickly,” Bush said as state elections officials prepared to oversee an expected recount next week in the 13th District race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings.<\/p>\n

Jennings was behind in the initial count by 373 votes and was pressing for answers about why more than 18,000 voters didn’t register a selection in the race, but did make choices in other contests. That rate was much higher than what the district’s other counties registered in the same congressional race.<\/p>\n

State elections officials planned an audit of the Sarasota County’s election system after the recount, which is expected to occur next week.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the state’s initial denial that there were any problems in Florida’s 13th Congressional District U.S. House race, even Jeb is now admitting there may be problems “worth investigating.” From AP… Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday the unusually high number of voters who didn’t choose a candidate in a congressional race in Sarasota County was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,6,5,180,16,566],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-election-irregularities","category-ess","category-fl-13","category-florida","category-jeb-bush","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}