Keep counting until you win, then stop counting.
I COMBINED a bunch of twitter posts from a CNN hacky below. It is a play by play of what Nelson is up to.
Ryan Nobles
@ryanobles
Nelson lead lawyer @MarcEElias now on a conference call briefing reporters on his latest lawsuits in the #FloridaRecount
First lawsuit Elias is talking about is the signature match lawsuit. He is suing to “invalidate” the law. One example of how many of these lawsuits are aimed at basically re-writing Florida election law.
Elias argument is that the law is straight up disenfranchisement. He calls it “common sense”. Says many states around the country have gotten rid of similar laws.
Elias now talking about his postmark, vote by mail case. Again- another example of re-writing a Florida election law. The law states the ballot must be at the Election board by 7pm on election night. He argues it should be postmarked by election day.
Elias now talking about his voter intent law- which will be very important in the Nelson race. He believes there are 10s or 100s of thousands of over and under votes. There is a specific problem in Broward County for Nelson. He got about 25k votes less than Gillum. (more)
Not only is Elias (and Democrats) hoping that there is a machine error of some kind that missed many of these votes. They also want to make sure those who look at those votes during the hand recount are liberal in their interpretation of who the voter was voting for.. (more)
Elias wants a Federal Court to require Florida to adjust or just throw out their guidelines as to what canvassers use to determine what votes count and what votes do not count.
The last big lawsuit on the Elias docket is one to extend the recount deadline for all 67 counties. That would be specifically aimed at both Palm Beach and Broward County. (Democratic heavy counties) which there is concern they won’t be done on time.
Elias said that there is really no rush for the recount to finish because a Senator is seated until January.... but also says he thinks that extension they need would likely be days not weeks.
That’s a wrap.. I think we are getting a clearer idea of the path to victory for Bill Nelson. It is a narrow path.. but we certainly can see the direction that Democrats are headed.. The short explanation: expand the pool of available votes.