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FL SEN: Something Very Odd (And In Violation Of State Law) Is Going On
Townhall.com ^ | November 8, 2018 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/09/2018 4:53:02 AM PST by Kaslin

UPDATE: GOP chair draws red line:

What’s happening in Florida is unacceptable. The #Broward Elections Supervisor has been pulling stunts like this for years and we’re not going to let her get away with it. https://t.co/v4f0yZVk3Y— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) November 8, 2018

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Something odd is occurring in Florida’s Senate race. Republican Gov. Rick Scott has declared victory over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. At the time, Scott led Nelson by a little over 34,500 votes. It’s now been cut to around 18,000. We’re heading into recount territory, as Scott’s lead has dwindled to 0.2 percent; less than half of one percent triggers an automatic recount. Yet, in two Democratic bastions—Palm Beach and Broward counties—they’re taking their sweet time counting the votes and not telling how many are left outstanding.  A category four hurricane recently hit the state and yet every county, including the ones slammed by Michael, have all counted their votes. In Broward, the supervisor there isn’t keeping regular reports on the ballots that need to be counted. She also appears not to know and has been dumping thousands at a time in the late night hours. 

Long but IMPORTANT THREAT ON ELECTIONS IN #FLORIDA.#BayCounty was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago,yet managed to count votes & submit timely results.

Yet over 41 hours after polls closed #Broward elections office is still counting votes? #Sayfie

1/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Broward supervisor:
- says she doesn’t know how many ballots are left to be counted; &
- Isn’t reporting hourly or regularly,but rather releasing thousands of additional votes,often in the overnight hours,that are chipping away at GOP leads

2/6 #Sayfie— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law:

A court found they improperly handled votes by mail:https://t.co/NOE6qdbWly

Court found they destroyed ballots in 2016 in violation of state & federal law:https://t.co/ywP8qE46J5 #Sayfie

3/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

Now democrat lawyers are descending on #Florida. They have been very clear they aren’t here to make sure every vote is counted.

- They are here to change the results of election; &
- #Broward is where they plan to do it.#Sayfie

4/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

A U.S. Senate seat & a statewide cabinet officer are now potentially in the hands of an elections supervisor with a history of incompetence & of blatant violations of state & federal laws.

Read Here: https://t.co/empQvOOgEb

5/6#Sayfie— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Broward election supervisors ongoing violation of #Florida law requiring timely reporting isn’t just annoying incompetence. It has opened the door for lawyers to come here & try to steal a seat in the U.S. Senate & Florida Cabinet
#Sayfie

6/6— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Florida law requires counties report early voting & vote-by-mail within 30 minutes after polls close. 43 hours after polls closed 2 Democrat strongholds #BrowardCounty & #PalmBeachCounty are still counting & refusing to disclose how many ballots they have left to count. #Sayfie pic.twitter.com/ReXCaOzkZP— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

Florida's ability to produce virtual 50-50 electoral splits time after time, despite relatively dynamic population shifts, is grimly amazing— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 8, 2018

Democrats are actively working to steal another election in Florida. https://t.co/LvURSiuF2M— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 8, 2018

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who fears that the Democrats might steal this election, detailed all of this on Twitter. He’s not the only one who thinks this election could be stolen. Now, scores of Democrat lawyers are pouring into the state, and just like in 2000, they’re only concerned with just counting the Bill Nelson votes. Oh, and the Broward Elections supervisor is known to be a total disaster at her job, like illegally destroying ballots disaster (via Miami Herald) [emphasis mine]:

Broward County’s Elections Department will receive special attention from state officials this November after a series of glitches, mistakes, and one case of illegal ballot destruction has some voters wondering if they should even trust the results coming out of the elections department telling them to “vote with confidence” on Nov. 6.

Following a court ruling in May that Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes had illegally destroyed ballots from a 2016 congressional race, the governor’s office announced the Florida Department of State would send election experts to Snipes’ office during this year’s election “to ensure that all laws are followed” and “to observe the administration of the election.”

Snipes says the extra scrutiny is undeserved.

“I think the problems are blown out of proportion,” Snipes said as she led a reporter around the elections staging facility in Lauderhill in October. “Broward is nitpicked to the bone. Other places have the same problems, different problems. It’s just that they are not spotlighted like we are.”

Even beyond her own reprimand for authorizing the destruction of ballots, Snipes cannot deny the department’s patchy track record. In 2016, early voting results for Broward were posted a half hour before polls closed, in violation of election law. Her office was sued unsuccessfully because a constitutional amendment was missing from some mail-in ballots. The electronic system used by the county was also later found to have been targeted by Russian government hackers — although it’s unclear whether that affected results and had nothing to do with the early posting.

On multiple occasions, there have been problems with printing mail ballots. And in the August primaries, Broward was the last county to post election results. The department cited reasons from unexpected recounts, delayed jump drive delivery — rumor was they were temporarily lost — to a late influx of mail-in ballots that were still being counted the next day, leaving the results of several races unclear.

“We have consistently been the bottom of the barrel getting our voting results in,” Broward County Commissioner Nan Rich said at a September meeting to discuss how to prevent future delays in posting results. “I don’t want to be 67th in 67 counties again in voting.”

Well, you are dead last, Broward County…and this looks like this race could end in a very nasty manner.

How can Broward County not know/refuse to say how many votes it has left to count?— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 8, 2018

They're not done filling out the ballots they're planning to count yet. https://t.co/oq7MuB4SsP— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 8, 2018



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; fl2018; florida; marcorubio; nelson; rickscott; voteringretity
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The rest of the title is: In These Two Democratic Counties
1 posted on 11/09/2018 4:53:02 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why weren’t these Marxist crooks taken care after the last few elections. Is the Repubkican party naive, incompetent or part of the coup?


2 posted on 11/09/2018 4:56:58 AM PST by cp124 (FUGOPe)
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To: cp124

“No intent”

Just ask Comey


3 posted on 11/09/2018 4:57:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

SEN NELSON, HAVE YOU NO SHAME NOR CONSCIENCE??


4 posted on 11/09/2018 4:58:41 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: Kaslin
- Isn’t reporting hourly or regularly,but rather releasing thousands of additional votes,often in the overnight hours,that are chipping away at GOP leads

Hey - give her elections workers a break.

They can only manufacture so many "votes" at a time.

5 posted on 11/09/2018 4:58:42 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: originalbuckeye

Of course he doesn’t. He’s a “FL Democrat”.


6 posted on 11/09/2018 4:59:56 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: kiryandil

If they get away with it I say blame the Republicans. Same with Az.


7 posted on 11/09/2018 5:00:13 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: cp124

“Is the Repubkican party naive, incompetent or part of the coup?”

All of the above in one way or another.


8 posted on 11/09/2018 5:00:44 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: cp124

The patriots in Florida need to bone up on “The Battle Of Athens” (in TN) aftr WWII. They took care of the problem of crooked elections. There’s a movie, and info online.


9 posted on 11/09/2018 5:00:55 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Kaslin
FIGURES. Perkins Coie Lawyer and Hillary Clinton Fixer, Marc Elias Spearheading Dems’ Florida Recount Operation
10 posted on 11/09/2018 5:01:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Kaslin

Never the Russians...always the Left.


11 posted on 11/09/2018 5:01:45 AM PST by windowdude
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To: Kaslin

No doubt, weeks before the elections, liberals in those mostly democratic counties, were busy manufacturing votes, and keeping them in storage, just in case they needed them to overtake a close lead by any republican who won his/her race.

Those boxes full of liberal votes have suddenly and mysteriously been found (and who woulda thunk it?) with enough democrat votes to overtake huge differences in the senate and governor and sec of agriculture votes.

Democrats would always be the minority party, everywhere, were it not for their cheating in elections.


12 posted on 11/09/2018 5:02:34 AM PST by adorno
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To: Kaslin

Not just Floriduh, either. It’s also happening in Arizona.

Only when the penalty for Voter Fraud and Ballot Tampering becomes a DEATH SENTENCE will that crap be curtailed.


13 posted on 11/09/2018 5:04:01 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: originalbuckeye

Sounds like a rhetorical question to me.


14 posted on 11/09/2018 5:04:48 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: MayflowerMadam

My good friends were there. One remembers it clearly and was 10 at the time.


15 posted on 11/09/2018 5:06:08 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Theodore R.

Or more broadly, “a democrat.”


16 posted on 11/09/2018 5:06:17 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
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To: Kaslin

If all this is, in fact, illegal then what the heck is Pam Bondi doing? Is she too busy measuring for new drapes in the Attorney General’s office in D.C. to care about what is going on behind her own back in Florida?


17 posted on 11/09/2018 5:06:51 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yep. This is where the shooting starts. The dims will not steal these elections and tell the tale. Not this time.


18 posted on 11/09/2018 5:06:54 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Kaslin

It’s way past time for people to go to jail for factory style vote
manufacturing.


19 posted on 11/09/2018 5:07:19 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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To: originalbuckeye
SEN NELSON, HAVE YOU NO SHAME NOR CONSCIENCE??

He's a democrat... you really have to ask that question? They know one thing, and one thing only... winning by all means necessary.

20 posted on 11/09/2018 5:07:48 AM PST by ScottinVA (GOP: The party of jobs. Democrats: The party of mobs.)
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