Mystery: NY Results Say Obama Got Zero Votes In 80 Districts

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem's 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city's 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

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[rheart]

OLD NEWS - MISSING VOTES IN DISTRICTS ALSO FOR CLINTON. What's up with Hufffington? This was reported almost immediately after election in NY and is not only a problem for Obama - They have found numerous districts with no votes for Clinton, too. So how about some old, slanted news. What a pathetic site. All reports including The NY Times indicate worker error - and the workers up in Harlem were of Obama's base so there is no hanky panky suspected there, they just don't know how to read, (maybe that's why they believe everything that comes out of Obama's mouth). AND THERE ARE OVER 6000 DISTRICTS in the State of NY. Really people you believe everything you hear and see. No wonder you are known as Obambots - It is clear the masses have spoken and we will have an empty headed President to follow the current nightmare. Maybe you people can find out who really killed Kennedy in this report also.

[SteveCox]

This place is Fox news for Borat supporters.

It's over, one brilliant pundit writes. Does Borat have 2025 delegates? Then it's not over.

I would not give up any possible chance if I were Clinton. All the people that hate her already, are still going to hate her, so it really makes no difference.

We have Ben and Jerry's candidate for change LOL. It's happy day for Tom Hayden and what's left of the yippies and Weather Underground, not to mention the Black Panther Party.

The Super Delegates were there to protect from fringe group hijacking the party. We have all these Republicans who vote for Obama because they know he will be easier once the slime machine get's going. This is what the Super Delegates were put in for.

There should not be open primaries either. They opened up primaries so that various state legislators could get proposistions past. Now we see why that is a bad idea.

Washington's vote last night, proved how true Democrats have been disenfranchised. Senator Clinton should not give up with a fight. Even if does mean the party will be weaker for a while.

Why should someone like Arianna have so much input into our party when she was a loyal enemy just a decade ago? It's time to fight for the soul of this party and not let go.

Obama's surrogate could not name one accomplishment, huffpost attacks Mathews, who has been until that time, a bias ObamaNation member.

These are not the people who shold decide our Party's nomination. It is not just the number of delegates.

He is a sure loser, with the Neo-Yippies at his side. He is anti-Isreal. He will lose, there is no doubt. I suspect Ohio and Texas Republicans will be out in force to vote for patsy Obama.

This is the lowest time in Democratic Party history!

[patriotscholar]

Maybe Hillary picked up all of Guliani's votes?

[fisharefreinds]

Ok, Finally someone is looking at these voting machines and saying something. It is my guess that John Edwards Won in the South and probably picked up whole lot of votes in New Hampshire and everywhere else he ran, but the machines were set to make it a 2 person race in the Dem party--Clinton and Obama. His votes were changed. Right now we have "two frontrunners" who have disenfrachised the people of this country, and they only care if it pertains to them. The electronic voting scandal makes the US worse then any 3rd world country we have sent Jimmy Carter to watch. Bush NEVER won in 2000 & 2004. I repeat, Bush NEVER won in 2000 & 2004. We are in trouble now.

[JTyroler]

We should be ashamed - all of us. How did we get to 2008 AD and apparently not have the ability to count ballots?!? Using the Diebold machines (I don't know if there are others) that don't have the ability for anyone to ensure the accuracy of the voter counts.

How in the hell did we get to this? We are trying to create democracies elsewhere, but apparently we can't get an honest democracy here. This is pathetic. :-(

[april4president]

I'm stunned--can't believe I haven't seen anything about this story until just now. Most foul. What is the meaning of this??!!

[shrinkess]

Well, now how stupid do those in charge think we are? Scumbags doing their scummy work, I say. I think this should be investigated.

[gsikev]

Oh god here comes the closet conspiracy theories.

[MaDem]

Evidently the people of Harlem and the other New York districts presented here simply have the smarts to have voted for the right candidate. Perhaps they saw clearly beyond race and wanted to see their accomplished senator go to the White House instead of some heavy-on-smiles, light-on-experience 'charmer.' Clinton won New York handily, so why would anyone risk vote tampering where she was going to crush Obama? It's just stupid. But maybe you're right, maybe Bill snuck out of his Harlem office and went around and jimmied all the voting machines himself. Wow, what a loyal husband.

[rheart]

OVER 6000 DISTRICTS - GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

[HeironymousJosch]

Is that a typo? 80 districts? New York state has 150 districts according to the elections board. That's more than have the state Obama got zero?!? Does anyone have links where I can find up to the minute news on this story. Obama getting shafted in more than half the state is a big, big deal.

[HeironymousJosch]

Note to self--read entire post. My bad. So, 80 districts out of 6106. At best this will amount to 3 delegates for Sen. Obama. This is a non-story. It wasn't a master plan to steal the election in NY. Obama finished better than polls predicted in the state. I think we can put the conspiracy theories to rest on this one. NH recounted and everything looks okay there too. The Clintons may not be playing clean but they're not rigging votes.

[roald]

I think there may be 2 definitions of districts. The article talked about NYC having 6,106 districts.

[roald]

The New York Times article at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?em&ex=1203310800&en=220686c46c068a82&ei=5087
provides more information. The official tallies corrected some/most/all of these errors. Some district's unofficial counts showed no votes for Clinton. Methinks I detect some bias here.

[patriotscholar]

Bias? I'm shocked!

[javagirl322]

This is so depressing! Here we go with that Gore/Bush shit again. Were did all of Obama's supporters go? Maybe they moved to Malibu, I don't know. This is proof yet again that while the U.S. meddles in elections in other countries (to make sure nobody cheats) they are cheating right here in our backyard. I hope history will show that George W. Bush was the first "president" to "win" from rigged elections and carefully appointed Supreme Court justices...

[MikeMidCity]

Not one vote for a black man in an entire Harlem district.

KInd of hard to believe isn't it?

Well I'm guessing that this really will put a hole in the black people voting for a black candidate for racial reasons theory.

Not a single person. Wow is all I can say.

Shall we call the political free DoJ in?

[HarryPalmer]

Seems like all of her big victories smell like a Florida swamp. In New Hampshire she won in the Diebold machine count towns and Obama won in the hand count towns. In California you have 50,000+ Independent's ballots not counted because of a dumb ballot design. Oh yes, and she won Florida and Michigan.

[jbehlok]

I think Susan B. Anthony would be ashamed of Hillary's behavior.

Susan B.Anthony and Fredrick Douglas worked together for a common goal of making things right and fair.

Hillary is out for herself, and she isn't playing fair to her party. She is looking like another George Bush!!!!!!!!!

[Joolma]

Why would anyone believe the NY Times? they endorsed Hilary Clinton it's hard to believe anything that's put out by the NY Times. If some of u bloggers would do you own research instead listing to polls, cynics, and anaylsts you would know Obama won 65% of the NY Black vote and won most of the outer NY counties, but the critics won't tell us that! I can't understand what people see in a sleezy corrupt politician such as Hilary.

YES WE CAN!

[ACunningham]

Hillary is a VENTRILOQUIST for her husband's Un-Constitutional THIRD term presidency.

[goldstategirl]

Oh! lol