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.
Shame the nonprofit is not named.
Regarding the last sentence: the PA recount has been cancelled: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3501136/posts
If this challenge succeeds, Broward County may have another chance to manufacture votes for Killary. If you recall, Broward took forever to release their count election night. There was speculation that Broward was waiting for the other counties to report so they would know how many votes to manufacture.
Won’t succeed cuz not within recount range and “nonprofit” isn’t a candidate and doesn’t have standing.
Next goofball tactic?
So Clint Curtis does a fundraiser for his own legal fees to file his lawsuit. Yeah, seems legit. /s/
Fools and their money...
Crackpots are determined, but Alas!
THIS ELECTION IS OVER!
PEOTUS TRUMP WON!
This is just INSANITY to the nth degree now. :-(
Sounds to me like a clever lawyer figured out how to fleece Dems.
‘razor thin’? Fake news, Trump won by over 100,000.
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.
One of the dullest, thickest razors ever.
Donald Trump 4,617,886 49.0%
Hillary Clinton 4,504,975 47.8%
The article claims "Florida state law prohibits any candidate from requesting a recount"
102.168 Contest of election.—
(1) Except as provided in s. 102.171, the certification of election or nomination of any person to office, or of the result on any question submitted by referendum, may be contested in the circuit court by any unsuccessful candidate for such office or nomination thereto or by any elector qualified to vote in the election related to such candidacy, or by any taxpayer, respectively.
This took perhaps 5 seconds to look up.
Narrowly decided State of Florida? Are you out of your tree?
Gov. Scott and Pam Bondi will not allow another phony side show like in Pennsylvania.
You don’t understand. We are no longer a nation of laws, but of judicial dictators. This could happen by a mere edict of a black-robed tyrant.
Did Algore request a recount in ‘00?
Seems like he was interested in having one.
Guessing this is the same guy..
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/is-this-man-crazy/Content?oid=2274003
This is computer programmer -Clinton Curtis hired to write a program to ‘flip the vote’ to a 51% to 49% result regardless of the actual outcome and it was undetectable at that time.
Uploaded on Mar 2, 2006
Computer Programmer testifies that Tom Feeney (Speaker of the Houe of Florida at the time, former US Representative) tried to pay him to rig election vote counts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs
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