Federal Lawsuit Filed Over 'Botched' Allen West Contest

Allen West

Of course, you remember that Rep. Allen West lost his re-election campaign last November by about a .6% vote margin. From Breitbart: "After one of the most expensive congressional races and recounts of 2012 between Rep. Allen West (R) and now Rep. Patrick Murphy (D), Houston-based True the Vote has committed to exposing exactly what happened in St. Lucie County — including hauling Elections Supervisor Gertrude Walker into federal court."

The article continues: "True the Vote filed a federal lawsuit against Walker, the controversial election administrator, for failure to comply with federal law. The Motor Voter law of 1993 grants the right to inspect election records, and ought to allow True the Vote to perform a 'comprehensive, third-party audit' of the recount, the group claims. Vote-counting in St. Lucie County, according to both the lawsuit and local press accounts, was deeply troubled, involving considerable confusion and missed deadlines in the original tabulation and subsequent recount."

More: "Thus far, Walker has failed to comply with True the Vote’s requests to inspect the election records. The request included, among other things, all records of Walker ensuring non-citizens and ineligible voters did not participate in the Congressional election."