Drama continues in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy partial recount in Florida

In South Florida, the Allen West campaign gets a partial victory with the St. Lucie County recount that will begin soon to resolve potential tabulation errors during early voting.  However, the drama continues as the Supervisor of Elections in St. Lucie County is now hospitalized and state representatives are present.  The TC Palm reports:

About 100 people milled around Supervisor of Elections Gertrude
Walker’s office Saturday morning while workers set up batteries of
machines to recount eight days of early voting ballots that could effect
the tight District 18 congressional race between Patrick Murphy and Allen West. 

As of 9:55 a.m., the recount had not begun.

Five Sheriff’s patrol cars were parked at the entrance to the building on Okeechobee Road, where security was tight.

Saturday morning, Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker was nowhere
to be seen. Friday night it was reported she had been taken to a
hospital.