Posted on 11/10/2018 10:11:41 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Three statewide races in Florida are heading for recounts after a key deadline for county election officials to submit unofficial vote tallies came and went Saturday.
The first round of machine recounts, which must be completed by Thursday, sets up a bitter fight to the finish in Florida’s races for Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner.
The most closely watched recount is the Senate race between incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who currently carries a narrow lead of roughly 12,500 votes — about 0.15 points.
In Florida, an automatic machine recount is triggered if two candidates are within 0.5 points of one another. If the candidates are within 0.25 points of one another after that machine recount is conducted, a hand recount is triggered.
The Senate race spiraled into a series of legal fights this week after Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Committee filed lawsuits against election officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties — both Democratic strongholds where vote counts continued to trickle in after Election Day.
Two judges handed Scott key legal wins in those cases on Friday. In Broward, Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips ordered the county’s supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, to turn over voter information, including how many people cast ballots and how many votes remained to be counted.
Meanwhile, in Palm Beach, Judge Krista Marx ordered the county supervisor of elections, Susan Bucher, to release certain ballots that had been deemed defective to the canvassing board for final review.
Nelson’s campaign and the Democratic Executive Committee filed a lawsuit of their own on Friday against Florida’s Republican secretary of state, Ken Detzner.
That lawsuit, filed in federal court in Tallahassee, sought a uniform set of standards for canvassing boards to use to evaluate provisional ballots, as well as to postpone the noon Saturday deadline for counties to submit unofficial results to the state Division of Elections until after the case was heard.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle declined to postpone the Saturday deadline. He scheduled a hearing on the lawsuit’s challenge to how provisional ballots are evaluated for Wednesday.
The Senate race has prompted dueling accusations from Republicans and Democrats.
Scott and his allies have raised the prospect of fraud in the ballot-counting process in Broward and Palm Beach, with the governor calling on Saturday for Florida sheriffs to “watch for any violations during the recount process.”
Meanwhile, Nelson and Democrats have accused Scott of trying to prevent lawfully cast votes from being counted, arguing that a recount is necessary to ensure accuracy in the election results.
The race for Florida governor is also heading to a recount after unofficial results showed Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis separated by roughly 0.41 points.
Gillum conceded to DeSantis on Tuesday after returns showed him trailing by 1 point. But as new vote totals came in from Broward and Palm Beach on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, DeSantis’s lead dropped considerably, putting the race in recount territory.
The gubernatorial contest in Florida hasn’t seen the kind of legal jockeying that the Senate race has. Still, Gillum and his attorney, Barry Richard, are set to address the media Saturday afternoon.
The race for agriculture commissioner is also headed for a recount. Democrat Nikki Fried and Republican Matt Caldwell are separated by a scant 0.06 percentage points — a little more than 5,300 votes.
While that race hasn’t drawn the outsize national attention that Florida’s Senate and gubernatorial races have, agriculture commissioner is an influential, Cabinet-level position in the state with sweeping responsibilities.
Results of a machine recount must be submitted by 3 p.m. on Nov. 15, at which point a hand recount could be triggered and would have to be completed by Nov. 18. Final statewide results are set to be certified on Nov. 20.
780 MILLION Voter ID’s with PHOTO! And no one can vote without it, and all voting is in person!
Sounds better than our system. I have voted in 3 different states since 1972, and was NEVER asked to show proof of citizenship while registering to vote. I was not born US citizen, but was naturalized US citizen before 1972. Which tells me, any illegal immigrant can vote here.
You need to get your head out from somewhere.
“Well, it looks like Snipes did her job: she got it close enough for a recount (and another, and another, until the Dems win).”
NOPE!
Wrong. Recounts are not about adding votes it is about recounting the same votes previously counted. Seldom does a recount, machine or manual ever result in a change of more than a few hundred votes.
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I’m sure others here will correct you; that is foolish thinking.
You don’t think the found bins of votes or the rental van or the 83,000 new votes will be included in the “recount”???
Dude, you should do your homework.
“You don’t think the found bins of votes or the rental van or the 83,000 new votes will be included in the “recount”???”
Very stupid post.
"TexasGator", eh? Not long after we moved from Katy to Florida, a gator was found wandering the streets in Cinco Ranch, of all places. Probably got out from the Brazos area... LOL.
Calling people stupid, telling them they should do their homework, and saying “Nope” to facts, is no way to add value to the thread.
To me, all you are doing is spamming the thread with static.
Does anyone know if the conjecture is true that a Soros owned company supplied many voting machines for elections?
After faulty machines are returned for repair, they can say “Fixed it. Goshdarn machines broke down but now they show Dems won after all. Working fine now.”
I also heard Soros got money through his groups to fund candidates in races for Secretary of State in many states because the Sec. of State overseas counting the votes to certify elections. That’s where the victory comes in.
Let’s wait for the official results first.
Then, if Scott indeed loses, yeah, it’s time for MASS and unrelenting “unrest” in Florida.
Sorry, oversees the counting,
not “overseas” like my brain went during the post.
I would like to see Republicans hustle around and find all of the ballot boxes just waiting to be discovered. All of course will be stuffed with REPUBLICAN ballots. Problem solved. Losers lose again. Shame on Florida for letting this situation continue for all these years. Pres Trump simply cannot spend his valuable time campaigning in a state where the deck is stacked for the commie democrats before the polls even open.
I didn’t call anyone stupid.
Moved from Cypress to Fl 2014
PLAN
Wait for election outcome. If GOP wins:
Find out who DID NOT vote and vote them DEM. This causes the delays.
FIND boxes of ‘lost’ votes - all DEM, and count them - election stolen.
UNTRACEABLE
“telling them they should do their homework”
True.
“You don’t think the found bins of votes or the rental van or the 83,000 new votes will be included in the “recount”???”
Very stupid post.
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Instead of throwing rocks, how about explain why it is stupid to not think of all the illegalities??? Please explain or is there a higher plane of knowledge I missed and I needn’t worry about such integrity of this or AZ elections.
Not exactly, but close. Your comments on this thread are still static. You are cutting way down on the signal-to-noise ratio.
“saying “Nope” to facts”
Correction. Saying NOPE to fake news and fiction.
“To me, all you are doing is spamming the thread with static.”
To me, it appears you are attacking me over old arguments where I fought those here that supported motorcycle gangs like the bandidos and cossacks.
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