Lawsuit filed to force Florida recount

Palmer Report ^ | Dec 2, 2016 | Bill Palmer

[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.

[Wiser now]

The article names a Democrat operative, an Hispanic woman who has agreed to be the plaintiff. It doesn’t say what she is alleging, and the complaints in the article are vague and amount to people being prevented from voting, and never mentions tampering with actual votes or totals.

[Iron Munro]

I think you only need to flip 60,000 votes which is half. You would need to manufacture 120,000 votes. Flipping has 2X the impact. One less for Trump and one more for Hillary is a total of 2.

In my post I was talking about creating new votes.

If they create new votes they will need 120,000.

If they change Trump votes to Hillary votes they only need to do it 60,000 times.

With the experience democrats have at stealing elections either strategy should be a piece of cake.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Same guy, same issue. That’s his modus operandi- accusing republicans of large scale vote fraud.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

Here’s their complaint:

http://www.protectourelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Complaint.pdf

[Ray76]

A collection of unsubstantiated allegations and conclusory statements.

[Flaming Conservative]

Yes

[Strac6]

Don’t have time to review the whole thing, but on quick review, that is a total BS complaint.

There is no documentation for most allegations. For example, the supposed 25,000 but not received ballots. Never make an allegation in a Complaint that you do not have some arguable proof of.

The core allegations seems to be that the results were not as the pollsters predicted. That’s why they have elections.

I can see this in the future:

(in oral argument to the appeals court)

“Your Honors, in this case, as originally brought in the 7th Judicial District, we were represented by attorney Sylvain Robitaille. That is not only grounds for appeal however.”