{"id":18003,"date":"2012-11-12T16:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18003"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:26:36","slug":"partial-recount-changes-little-in-allen-west-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Partial Recount Changes Little In Allen West House Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE \u2014 A partial recount gave <strong>Rep. Allen West<\/strong> a slight bump Sunday in his fight to remain in Congress, but not enough to mandate a full review of ballots or to end threats of lawsuits from his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie County&#8217;s limited recount revised downward the totals for both <strong>West<\/strong> and the unofficial winner in the race, Democrat <strong>Patrick Murphy.<\/strong> Because <strong>Murphy<\/strong> lost more votes in the recount than <strong>West<\/strong>, it was a net gain for the Republican incumbent, though his margin of loss remained just above the threshold to order a full recount.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side left the supervisor of elections&#8217; office happy. <strong>Murphy&#8217;s<\/strong> campaign noted even a partial recount wasn&#8217;t necessary under state law. <strong>West&#8217;s<\/strong> campaign objected to the three days of early-voting ballots that were recounted, the absence of a full recount of early votes and the county&#8217;s refusal to turn over some other documentation requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE \u2014 A partial recount gave Rep. Allen West a slight bump Sunday in his fight to remain in Congress, but not enough to mandate a full review of ballots or to end threats of lawsuits from his campaign. St. Lucie County&#8217;s limited recount revised downward the totals for both West and the unofficial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}