Posted on 11/11/2018 9:50:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher Threatens To Jail Media For Filming "Ballot Counting"
Two kinds of people hate being filmed while going about their business in public: celebrities and criminals.
Breaking from normal practice, the Palm Beach County elections supervisor banned media from filming and photographing the high-profile midterm election ballot review process amid allegations of incompetence by Gov. Rick Scott.
The camera ban prompted an attorney for NBC Universal to interrupt the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board and object to the meeting, calling it illegal.
Tensions flared Friday morning when Bucher threatened to have camera operators and newspaper reporters arrested for filming ballot tabulation as Palm Beach County. The meeting at least half a dozen television cameras and even more reporters as Palm Beach County is one of the last in Florida to report unofficial results in an election with three tight statewide races. Bucher accused several reporters of illegally taking pictures and videos of signatures on the envelopes of mail ballots.
Reporters repeatedly assured Bucher that they were filming the board members from a safe distance as they examined ballots and decided whether to toss or count them. Signatures were not visible in any Palm Beach Post photos.
Still, Bucher insisted that shed bring officers to forcibly remove any member of the media who filmed the process.
Despite objections from reporters, the canvassing board insisted that the meeting not be filmed or photographed.
There is no way the canvassing board can determine or ascertain what those cameras, those recording devices are recording, said Judge August Bonavita, chair of the canvassing board. We have to focus exclusively on whats in front of us. We cant pay attention to your cameras.
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...
Notice the difference between the law, governor and judge telling and or threatening and a corrupt hack bureaucrat saying boo. The hack says FU to the law, the press and pubbies run screaming in terror from the criminal bureaucrat.
Would any patriots have a problem with streaming YouTube cams that provide wide-angle views of the entire chain of ballot custody?
I dont know about being able to hear what processors are saying. But it happens only every two years so minimal processor sacrifice for the country.
Also, boxes used to transport ballots need permanent GPS chips protected by federal and state anti-tampering laws.
Insights welcome.
The only way to conquer this is for America to get up off its ass, and demand an end to the abuse of our electoral system.
Wake me up when the shooting and hanging starts.
The ACLU might defend anybody she tries to put in jail. False, arrest, deprivation of rights under color of law, false imprisonment, there's probably some others. You could probably make her stop if she learns about that.
Gentlemen, I believe we are close to having to act. Our governments, federal and state, are inept.
JoMa
More and more it’s looking like the ballot box is not the answer. Elections are becoming meaningless.....
More and more its looking like the ballot box is not the answer. Elections are becoming meaningless.....
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And until we, the citizens, are standing up and taking out the garbage on a regular basis, there is no fix.
It’s happening because WE let it. WE let it because WE have become convinced that if WE do anything WE will be the bad guys.
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