Posted on 11/12/2018 12:45:03 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Broward Circuit Judge Jack Tuter said Monday that he would not issue an injunction in response to a request from Gov. Rick Scott (R) that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and county sheriffs impound ballots and voting machines in the county when they’re not in use, according to CBS Miami.
The announcement comes a day after Scott filed a pair of emergency motions in Palm Beach and Broward County courts, as legal action intensifies over the too-close-to-call Senate race between the governor and Sen. Bill Nelson (D).
The race is now undergoing a machine recount that must be completed by Thursday, with separate recounts also taking place for the state’s gubernatorial and agriculture commissioner races.
In addition to this injunction, Scott also filed an emergency motion on Sunday, asking a judge to halt the inclusion of ballots from Palm Beach County in the final tally that were counted after the Saturday deadline to submit the unofficial vote count.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Nelson called on Scott to recuse himself from “any role” in the recount process.
“[Scott] should remove himself from any role in the recount process so the people can have confidence in the integrity of the election,” Nelson said in a statement.
“Given his efforts to undermine the votes of Floridians, this is the only way that we can ensure that the people’s votes are protected.”
Scott currently leads Nelson by roughly 12,500 votes, or 0.20 percentage point.
The deadline for the machine recount is Thursday at 3 p.m. If the margin between the candidates ends within 0.25 points after the machine recount is conducted, a hand recount will be triggered. The manual recount would only tally so-called overvotes and undervotes.
Undervotes refer to a ballot cast by a voter that does not appear to include a pick for one of the contests. Overvotes occur when a voter appears to have picked more than one candidate within a single contest.
A manual recount would set up a Saturday deadline for the process to be completed, leaving Florida election officials scrambling to meet the Nov. 20 deadline to certify the results.
Scott and Nelson have lobbed continuous accusations at one another since Tuesday’s election. Scott claimed that Nelson is trying to “commit fraud” to win the election, while Nelson has accused the governor of seeking to block votes cast legally.
The war of words comes as President Trump weighed in on the recount on Monday, calling for the Senate and governor’s race to be called for the Republican candidates and claiming that "an honest vote count is no longer possible."
Another Jeb! appointee.
As someone on another thread pointed out, this is what appeals courts are for.
Climb up the chain until you get the decision you want, just like the Demonrats would.
In my opinion, this is why the markets are crashing today. If you can not trust the integrity of the elections, how can you trust there is any integrity in the markets? The longer this drags out, the more the markets are going to crash. Ive got 1/3 of my life savings in the markets via our 401k. I’m not saying were doomed, but it is not looking good for the short or long term.
Bump.
Something we will have to revisit later but, as far as Scott and Desantis’ races, this would be like closing the barn door after the horses got out anyway.
The fix is in........................
He’s a Jeb Bush judge, so that explains a lot doesn’t it.
Jeb! did the USA nearly as many favors as brother W. Apparently.
sigh
I’ll bet every single county employee is corrupt from the top to the bottom.
Or they end up dead.
In both casees, such ballots should be tossed as invalid. Period.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) called for the removal of Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes.
"There is no question that Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes failed to comply with Florida law on multiple counts, undermining Floridians’ confidence in our electoral process," Bush tweeted.
"Supervisor Snipes should be removed from her office following the recounts."
Jeb Bush calls for Broward County official to be removed from post
A non-vote is just as valid as a vote. Often when I go vote there is no-one I support, I leave that race blank. I do vote on other things that are on that ballot . You are saying that my vote should be negated because I didn’t vote for something I don’t support? How progressive of you, komrad.
As for overvotes, by definition marking more than one selection in a single race disqualifies the ballot, so I do agree there: these ballots shouldn’t even be included in the initial count, but held aside to corroborate the # of votes cast.
No! Scott screwed up. He should have declared an emergency, seized control of the ballots and the station, set up cameras and observers everywhere.
Then, of course, it would have gone before this judge, who would have issued an injunction, but he'd be appealing that, and still have control.
P-9-10! Which is short for "Possession is 9/10 of the law."
Scott wimped out.
There's the fly in the ointment. The Socialist Nazis are currently using them as hard as they can to steal the election.
“In my opinion, this is why the markets are crashing today.”
That’s the first thing that came to my mind, too. To much chaos — exactly what the Rats want.
I should have specified that they should be considered as invalid for any recount for the specified race.
Right they should been impounded immediately. As usual we bring marshmallows to a knife fight.
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