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Why the red tsunami seems to have hit only Florida
American Thinker ^ | 9 Nov, 2022 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/09/2022 4:27:23 AM PST by MtnClimber

As vote counts continue to be posted, it is clear that Republican hopes and dreams of a huge wave election have been dashed. Instead of a large House majority and solid control of the Senate, Republicans will be lucky to have small majorities in each chamber, and even that outcome is not secure at this moment.

But in one state, Florida, Republicans have triumphed in tsunami-like proportions. With 98% of the vote counted, Marco Rubio has a 16.4% landslide lead over Senate challenger Val Demings, and Governor Ron DeSantis has a 19.4% lead, a gigantic increase over his fraction of one percent squeaker victory 4 years ago.

It’s going to take some time to figure out why the rest of the country isn’t behaving like the Sunshine State, but 3 factors suggest themselves.

Ron DeSantis displayed gutsy leadership in confronting Covid, enduring taunts as “DeathSantis” and far worse, as he refused to cower before the might of Dr. Fauci, the medical establishment, Big Pharma, the media, and Democrat politicians. As a result, Florida prospered as other states closed down their businesses and schools. (The other governor who resisted the panic, South Dakota’s Kristi Noem won with an even bigger margin: 26.8 points with 97% of the vote counted.) Note the sign on his podium as he addressed supporters at his campaign headquarters in the wake of his victory, with his cancer-survivor wife at his side:

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KEYWORDS: 2022election; desantis; elections; fl; florida; redtsunami; winning
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1 posted on 11/09/2022 4:27:23 AM PST by MtnClimber
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I think the states with mass mail in ballots are enabling democRAT cheating.


2 posted on 11/09/2022 4:27:34 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Because FL didn’t experience the massive election, ballot and voter fraud that occurred everywhere else. End of story.


3 posted on 11/09/2022 4:28:59 AM PST by albie
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To: MtnClimber

Full Agreement


4 posted on 11/09/2022 4:29:26 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nypost.com
By Jon Levine
August 29, 2020

Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots

A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.

Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded.

But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.

“An election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes — it can make a difference,” the tipster said. “It could be enough to flip states.”

The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.

“There is no race in New Jersey — from city council to United States Senate — that we haven’t worked on,” the tipster said. “I worked on a fire commissioner’s race in Burlington County. The smaller the race, the easier it is to do.”

A Bernie Sanders die-hard with no horse in the presidential race, he said he felt compelled to come forward in the hope that states would act now to fix the glaring security problems present in mail-in ballots.

“This is a real thing,” he said. “And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”

Mail-in voting can be complicated — tough enough that 84,000 New Yorkers had their mailed votes thrown out in the June 23 Democratic presidential primary for incorrectly filling them out.

But for political pros, they’re a piece of cake. In New Jersey, for example, it begins with a blank mail-in ballot delivered to a registered voter in a large envelope. Inside the packet is a return envelope, a “certificate of mail in voter” which the voter must sign, and the ballot itself.

That’s when the election-rigger springs into action.

The ballot has no specific security features — like a stamp or a watermark — so the insider said he would just make his own ballots.

“I just put [the ballot] through the copy machine and it comes out the same way,” the insider said.

But the return envelopes are “more secure than the ballot. You could never recreate the envelope,” he said. So they had to be collected from real voters.

He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water.

“You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider.

He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope.

“Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.

The insider said he took care not to stuff the fake ballots into just a few public mailboxes, but sprinkle them around town. That way he avoided the attention that foiled a sloppy voter-fraud operation in a Paterson, NJ, city council race this year, where 900 ballots were found in just three mailboxes.

“If they had spread them in all different mailboxes, nothing would have happened,” the insider said.

Inside jobs

The tipster said sometimes postal employees are in on the scam.

“You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”

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In some cases, mail carriers were members of his “work crew,” and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative.

In 2017, more than 500 mail-in ballots in New York City never arrived to the Board of Elections for races that November — leaving hundreds disenfranchised. They eventually were discovered in April 2018. “For some undetermined reason, some baskets of mail that were bound to the New York City Board of Elections were put off to the side at the Brooklyn processing facility,” city elections boss Michael Ryan said at the time of discovery.

Nursing homes

Hitting up assisted-living facilities and “helping” the elderly fill out their absentee ballots was a gold mine of votes, the insider said.

“There are nursing homes where the nurse is actually a paid operative. And they go room by room by room to these old people who still want to feel like they’re relevant,” said the whistleblower. “[They] literally fill it out for them.”

The insider pointed to former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann, who was sued in 2007 after a razor-thin victory for a local school board seat for allegedly tricking “incompetent … and ill” residents of nursing homes into casting ballots for him. McCann denied it, though he did admit to assisting some nursing home residents with absentee ballot applications.

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5 posted on 11/09/2022 4:29:29 AM PST by Liz (Man proposes.God disposes.)
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To: MtnClimber

You don’t think. You know there was widespread cheating.


6 posted on 11/09/2022 4:29:48 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrats are just like NYC’s Tammany Hall ... big political machines, run by wealthy elites with access to misinformation media like Scarborough (a failed Republican).


7 posted on 11/09/2022 4:30:07 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (u)
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To: MtnClimber

Partly because votes that might have gone to candidates in NY, NH, PA, and other such areas went to DeSantis and Rubio and Abbott (in Texas) instead as those people went to Florida and Texas and the Carolinas in the last number of years.


8 posted on 11/09/2022 4:30:51 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: MtnClimber

I think because we vote early in person verse mail balllots. Also, a lot of us voted early verse just waiting to last day.


9 posted on 11/09/2022 4:31:07 AM PST by hollywood12345
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To: albie

Because Deep State knew it was idiotic to tip its hand before the next presidential election.

Deep State won what it needed, has us at each other’s throats, and can still steal any election it wants at will.

It was a fine night for Deep State last night.

And until we ditch RCV, RCV-enabled voting machines, end mail-in voting, and early voting we will NOT restore out republic.


10 posted on 11/09/2022 4:32:24 AM PST by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MtnClimber

If anyone is looking for an unemployed waitress with a GED, Lauren Boebert may be available.


11 posted on 11/09/2022 4:32:24 AM PST by babble-on
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To: hollywood12345

When people vote early they help Deep State figure out how much is has to cheat.

Early voting aids and abets our common enemy.

It has to go.


12 posted on 11/09/2022 4:33:31 AM PST by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Yup. Blue got Bluer and Red got Redder.


13 posted on 11/09/2022 4:34:25 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: MtnClimber

“I think the states with mass mail in ballots are enabling democRAT cheating.”

Republicans can play that game too.


14 posted on 11/09/2022 4:34:41 AM PST by cymbeline
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“I think the states with mass mail in ballots are enabling democRAT cheating.”
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Exactly


15 posted on 11/09/2022 4:35:02 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: Chgogal

That is the essence of a gerrymandered country. Extremism dominates both sides of the spectrum.


16 posted on 11/09/2022 4:35:18 AM PST by babble-on
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To: albie

Just STOP

He won because he GOT THE JOB DONE and his leadership during Covid and the Hurricane recovery completely outshined.

He won Hillsborough, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties. No Republican has ever done that before at the state level.


17 posted on 11/09/2022 4:35:19 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: albie

Is Ron part of the NWO???


18 posted on 11/09/2022 4:37:38 AM PST by magna carta
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To: babble-on

Good point.

MSM has a lot of influence too.


19 posted on 11/09/2022 4:38:17 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: MtnClimber

YEs. Let’s start with a fair election..


20 posted on 11/09/2022 4:40:29 AM PST by nikos1121
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