Posted on 12/03/2016 8:52:43 PM PST by upchuck
Yesterday a federally registered nonprofit election entity launched a fundraiser to cover the court costs of a lawsuit it intended to file in the name of forcing a statewide recount in the narrowly decided state of Florida. The attorney fees were fully crowdfunded within a matter of hours. And today the attorney in question announced that he has officially filed the lawsuit in question, creating at least some possibility that a Florida recount may happen.
Florida state law prohibits any candidate from requesting a recount, meaning that third party candidate Jill Stein cannot force a recount in the state even if she pays for the costs, as she’s doing in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But this lawsuit is aimed at getting a judge to order a Florida recount, whether republican state officials want to do it or not.
Clint Curtis, the Florida attorney who has been hired to lead the legal charge in court, announced today via his official Facebook page that the election complaint is now indeed underway in the legal arena.
Donald Trump was officially named the winner in Florida, but by a razor thin margin, and only after Hillary Clinton had appeared to bank enough of an early vote lead in the state that it would have been all but mathematically insurmountable for Trump to have come back and won. If the courts do rule that a Florida recount must take place, and if the recount reveals that Clinton did get the most votes in the state, those electoral votes would be reassigned to clinton. Similar scenarios are playing out in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with the fate of the election hanging in the balance.
Democrats might fight this one.
Th+e last thing Florida democrats want is anyone taking a close look at the voting shenanigans in South Florida from Palm Beach down to Miami.
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Ditto! It would be different if we didn't have to worry about rogue activist judges but every attempt to thwart the law and Constitution presents danger these days.
Campaign website: www.clintcurtis2016.com
Campaign email: Clint@ClintCurtis2016.com
Campaign phone number: 407-901-6047
Campaign Facebook: www.facebook.com/clint.curtis.90 (personal but public)
He ran for Florida’s House District 47 seat
Fake news
Here is the group fronting for whoever it is that is pushing for the recount lawsuit:
https://protectourelections.nationbuilder.com/florida_recount
A whole bunch of “Waaaaaaaaa”.
I live and vote in Florida and I’m totally sick of this stuff.
Federal election reform MUST be a PRIORITY
Make certain acts felonies with long prison terms
Must have valid ID to vote in Federal election
They submitted it on the last day possible.
This commie horseshit is getting old. When they file, take them out and shoot them.
His website lists another lawyer for Florida cases. He handles NY.
Washington DC based non-profit files suit seeking recount in Florida.
The law-suit was filed, according to the Protect Our Elections website.
‘Protect Our Elections,’ an NPO based out D.C., filed a law suit today in the state of Florida seeking an official recount of the 2016 presidential election in that state. The law suit will be filed by voluntary Plaintiff Leonisia Olivares and the law firm of Clint Curtis has agreed to represent her in the matter.
Clint Curtis, a former employee of the Congressman Feeney, made national news when he alleged that Feeney, colluding with Yang Enterprises and requested that Curtis write computer programs for touchscreen voting machines that would allow the results to be altered without detection 51-49.
Florida was won by president-elect Donald Trump by 117,000 votes. Trump won 4,617,886 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 4,504,975 votes.
We Have to Know, a “nonpartisan group of Wisconsin-based election integrity experts and organizers” has set-up a tax deductible fundraiser to help fund the effort.
Not to mention that it's also horribly written.
“Florida state law prohibits any candidate from requesting a recount...”
If not a candidate, then who has standing?
this election is not hanging in the balance and if they want civil war, take it away from Trump.
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