Posted on 11/11/2018 8:24:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Many people I know enjoy watching movies multiple times: from Gone With The Wind and Jurassic Park to Field of Dreams or La La Land, if it comes on TV they’ll watch it. A harmless vice…time-wasting but no lasting damage,
However, across America—and around the globe—we are all facing the prospect of a rerun we don’t want to experience: yet another stupid, protracted, over-lawyered “election recount” drama in the state of Florida. Unlike watching Batman Forever a few too many times, this rerun will “Make America UNgreat Again” by turning Florida and the USA into an international joke.
Three statewide contests—including Florida’s closely watched race for the U.S. Senate and the battle for Florida’s governor’s mansion—were thrown into official recounts on Saturday. Not because of any rampant fraud or malfeasance by voters or officials statewide. And not because of hacking or manipulation from foreign governments.
No. The reason we are again being forced to relive the nightmare and embarrassment first seen in the 2000 Bush/Gore “recount” (which took the U.S. Supreme court to resolve) and which in 2016 led to lawsuits over mishandling of ballots in a Congressional race is a familiar one: election “officials” in Palm Beach and Broward counties. Poster-child for the recurring incompetence in timely, accurate tabulation of ballots is—once again—Brenda Snipes, Broward supervisor of elections.
As Lou Dobbs observed on a Salem Radio Network commentary: “Rather than chasing phony leads about Russians interfering in our elections, the FBI and Federal authorities might be wiser to investigate vote tampering by elections officials in Broward and Palm Beach County.”
While Lou is on-target, such probes would inevitably just add to the circus by drawing-out even more lawyers than the ones already scurrying into Florida like rats in heat.
What this latest totally unnecessary “emergency” requires is out of the box—to wit, radical—thinking. It is time to throw out ALL ballots cast November 6th in Palm Beach County and Broward County. Every one. Even Palm Beach County resident Rush Limbaugh’s. Whether cast for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians or write-ins. Then use the accurately counted, professionally handled ballots from Florida’s remaining 65 counties to determine who won last week’s election for the next U.S. Senator, Governor and State Agriculture Commissioner.
This, of course, would elicit yowls from intelligent people (as well as from MSNBC hosts) that ALL voters in those two populous counties have thus been “disenfranchised” and they ALL should file lawsuits.
Which is true. And they should.
The lawsuits should name as defendants the specific parties responsible for ballot irregularities ranging from idiotic butterfly ballots to the “hanging chads” and—a few days ago—the Provisional Ballots box a teacher suddenly “found” at Sunshine Elementary School in Miramar. The lawsuits should be filed against elections officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
My guess is that once these officials are held personally responsible for the repeated (to be charitable) bungling of the completed ballots which county residents had every right to believe would be accurately counted, two things would likely happen: most of the current buffoons in those offices would be replaced, and—going forward—elections in Broward County and Palm Beach County would not cause Florida’s statewide winners to be held up by weeks of partisan wrangling because a ballot was misplaced or dropped off the back of a truck or burned up when a spark flew out of a toaster. That’s what we don’t even accept from elections in remote villages of Third World countries, much less in two of the most populous counties in Florida.
Full disclosure: I do not personally know any of the officials involved, nor do I bear any of them ill will or impugn their motives or integrity. Brenda Snipes in Broward County, for example, may be a perfectly wonderful person. But the preponderance of the evidence available to us as laymen—especially the repeated inability over many years to swiftly and accurately complete tabulation of election results—leads me to believe she and other election officials have long ago outworn their welcome.
When a proud office-seeker like Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum—who graciously conceded Tuesday evening to his rival Ron DeSantis after the “final” results were announced—has to look like a fool by “unconceding” on Friday once it turns out all the votes have STILL not been counted almost a week later, it is well past time to accept this as business as usual.
Disenfranchising this year’s ballots in Broward and Palm Beach counties will resolve the 2018 statewide races quickly, and ensure that future balloting will be overseen by competent, qualified elections supervisors rather than the current rogue’s gallery of political hacks.
The guy said elections since 1960. Bush Gore came after 1960.
Disenfranchise is not the right word because it implies denying the citizens their right to vote. Better would be to “decertify” the vote tabulations produced by Broward and Palm Beach Counties, meaning the votes are cast, but will not be counted until a thorough investigation of the officials and practices is concluded and all invalid votes are identified and disqualified. If that means that the votes can’t be counted this election because there are deadlines for votes to be submitted, so be it.
The GOP will fold bet on it....
mail in ballots, early voting, same-day registration, drive-up voting, no ID voting, absentee ballots - ALL of these are strong invitations to fraud
People like Brenda Snipes thrive in this environment.
Among other issues:
-- A court ruled she had broken federal election law when she destroyed ballots from Debbie W/S's 2016 election 12 months later.
-- She let off a medical marijuana amendment on some ballots in 2016.
-- Election results in the 2016 primary were posted on her elections office’s website before polls closed, a violation of election law.
-- In 2012, almost 1,000 uncounted ballots were discovered a week after the election
-- In 2004, some 58,000 mail-in ballots were not delivered to voters, leaving election officials to scramble to send new ones....[snip]
Republicans say she is incompetent at best, corrupt at worst, and that she needs to go. Even Pres Trump weighed in, tweeting,
“In 2016, I was winning by so much in Florida that Broward County, which was very late with vote tabulation
probably getting ready to do a ‘number on me,’........ couldn’t do it because not enough people live
in Broward for them to falsify a victory!”... [snip] (Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
NOTE: Candidate Hillary got busted for having secret meetings with Snipes.
Bondi seems to have disappeared. Yet on tv and radio plenty before the election.
Democrats are so, so sincere, right before they stab you in the back and then dump hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots into the system.
Votes in those counties should not be counted until their system is certified to be cleaned up. Ms. Snipes should be publicly caned until blood runs into the grass at her feet, then thrown into jail for a decade. She disgraced a vital position of trust and should pay for it. I don’t care what gender/color/whatever she is. That should not shield her from the consequences of her heinous actions. Whoever retained this witch in such a position AFTER she already previously committed similar crimes should be fired.
It’s time to declare the Democrat Party a criminal enterprise and threat to the Republic. Martial law, Gitmo, Fema camps.
Civil rights violation.
The constitutional voting rights of millions of Floridians is being taken away by the fraud and incompetence of Democrats in Broward and Palm Beach.
Decertify them, and revote in December under federal oversight. It has been done before....
ALL voters in the two counties have now been “disenfranchised”
ALL voters in Florida have have now been “disenfranchised”. Governor is a Statewide offices.
ALL voters in USA have now been “disenfranchised”. US Senator is a Federal offices.
Throw out all ballots for Broward and Palm Beach counties. The federal government should take over election administration in these areas because the people in the area are either not smart enough or are too criminal tor run their own elections. The Republic can no longer tolerate this behavior.
excellent point.
About 120 years late.
I think it likely the poster was referring to Los Angeles County in California.
Truth be told, this woman and whoever is directing her, should be on gurneys with IVs in their arms for treason.
It's the only way this is going to stop.
Los Angeles county in California just as crooked got it.
Only way democrats win is by cheating odds not in their favor.
There is no doubt in my mind about it.
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