Posted on 11/15/2018 9:03:46 AM PST by Kaslin
It's been more than one week since polls closed on Election Night in Florida, with tight national races and recount efforts again spotlighting the Sunshine State.
In Broward and Palm Beach Counties, there have been a slew of ballot issues. Election officials in both counties have a history of incompetence and corruption.
Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes was convicted for illegally destroying ballots in 2016 and has a long record of questionable practices.
Broward County Supervisor of Elections, Brenda Snipes, has a long history of fraud.
Here are just some headlines from the past few years about misconduct, and outright violation of the law by Brenda Snipes and the “most controversial elections department in South Florida”. pic.twitter.com/oczeHiz2d7— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) November 9, 2018
Over in Palm Beach, election officials locked reporters out of a public meeting where ballots were being reviewed. Reporters have been covering these types of meetings in an open setting for years.
NBCUniversal, Scripps Media and Fox Television are suing Susan Bucher and the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board for refusing to allow us to record video while they review ballots in a public meeting @nbc6 #EmergencyPetition pic.twitter.com/wPCcNapaTv— Marissa Bagg (@MarissaNBC6) November 9, 2018
#PalmBeachCounty elections supervisor bans media cameras from public ballot counting & threatens them with arrest.
How much more will it take to convince skeptics that what is happening in Palm Beach & #BrowardCounty is not a normal elections process? https://t.co/NzoNAYCZFN— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 10, 2018
Now, a new report shows ballots were inappropriately altered and the Florida Democrat Party is the likely culprit. From POLITICO (bolding is mine):
The Florida Department of State last week asked federal prosecutors to investigate dates that were changed on official state election documents, the first voting “irregularities” it has flagged in the wake of the 2018 elections.
The concerns, which the department says can be tied to the Florida Democratic Party, center around date changes on forms used to fix vote-by-mail ballots sent with incorrect or missing information. Known as “cure affidavits,” those documents used to fix mail ballots were due no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 5 — the day before the election. But affidavits released on Tuesday by the DOS show that documents from four different counties said the ballots could be returned by 5 p.m. on Thursday, which is not accurate.
Audio of a Florida Democratic Party caller leaving a voicemail message asking a Palm Beach County voter to fix their vote by mail ballot after Election Day, which is not allowed, was also sent to POLITICO separately. It was not part of the information turned over to federal prosecutors.
Meanwhile, the recount triggered over the weekend and officially announced by the Secretary of State has been halted. Vote counting machines in Palm Beach County have broken down, again delaying final tallies. The original deadline for the recount is today, November 15. Because of the machine malfunctions, that deadline has been extended to November 20. From CBS Miami:
On Tuesday, Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said their outdated equipment is slowing them down.
“I don’t think the state of Florida expected that we would have this many recounts but what I think is we have a lot of outdated statutes, a lot of outdated laws that were designed when we had a much lesser population,” said Bucher.
Those comments came hours before the ballot counting machines completely broke down.
Bucher says that they have to re-run all the early voting ballots in the Senate race.
Technicians have been flown to South Florida to fix the machines, but it’s not clear yet when they will be back up and running.
#BREAKING: Judge gives thousands of #Florida voters with rejected ballots time to fix signature problemshttps://t.co/M7wK774rSH pic.twitter.com/EJWwtBzmGH— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) November 15, 2018
Florida Governor Rick Scott is proceeding as the U.S. Senator-elect and was in Washington D.C. this week for orientation. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell welcomed him to the Capitol on Wednesday.
A warm welcome to the incoming class of Republican Senators. pic.twitter.com/yNcqWvX0qp— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) November 14, 2018
Scott's opponent, Democrat Senator Bill Nelson, is vowing to fight on. In the governor's race, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum rescinded his concession to Republican Governor-elect Ron DeSantis last weekend.
Prosecution is the only way to save it. The Left would see it as persecution or unimportant even if they boasted of it ... as happened in ‘16 with PV videos.
As for Clinton, hundreds of FBI files plus whatever she made off with while SOS explain it too. Just saying.
And no faith isn’t as bad as a false faith. You can recover from no faith. It’s hard to escape delusion.
bkmk
Yours is good too.
But, then we’d have to worry about it tipping over.
Yawn
Waiting for the bracelets, perp walk and jumpsuit.
Still waiting
Also the truth about the Manchurian Candidate.
I agree. Look at that face. The lidded eyes. The whole look. That is the face of a bureaucrat that could be found in places like the Soviet Union. Someone who knows the system.
Scum. It is leeches like those people, especially the ones who wish to impose their will on us via a bureaucratic fiat, are the ones I detest the most.
I see Hillary in her. She isn’t stupid. But she isn’t as smart as she thinks she is.
delusion is where we are at. Logic and reality never enter into the picture. When in doubt compare to Hitler or KKK and shout racist. People tune this nonsense out, but say it often enough they will parrot back to you and that is where are at. We have a complete generation of kids now in their 20s that have no clue and I blame educators for it
Freeper bray: "Voter ID would be the end of the Dems."
Yes!
Not only does Pres. Trump want voter ID, but consider the following.
Patriots have until 2020 to work with their state officials to iron out predictable problems with enforcing Section 2 of 14th Amendment (14A) — legal fights, activist judges, etc..
Problems also including expense and issue of possible smart, scannable citizenship / photo ID cards to address problem of Democratic voting officials with “poor" eyesight.
Noting that subsequent voting-related amendments to the Constitution have effectively modified Sec. 2 of 14A, please consider the following.
Sec. 2 was made to address House of Representatives-related voting fraud by state actors, a concern evidenced by the ongoing political party cold war of the Civil War, this cold war evidenced by likely voting fraud in Florida and other states.
”14th Amendment, Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens [emphasis added] twenty-one years of age in such State."
Note that Sec. 2 clearly indicates that only citizens are allowed to vote, the remedy for violating Sec. 2 also indicating to that only citizens can vote.
Also consider that even though 14A made the former slaves citizens, the states uniquely have the power to decide who votes regardless of citizenship. So it wasn’t until the states ratified the 15th Amendment, 14 & 15 ratified under very questionable circumstances, that male freedmen had the power to vote.
Again, regardless what activist judges have been saying about voter ID, based on Sec. 2, I believe that the simplest practical way that the states can comply with that section is to require citizens to present a valid citizenship / photo ID card before being allowed to vote.
Corrections, insights welcome.
They really need to look at the FL Agriculture Commissioner’s race because the rats stole that one to put their antigun nut in th office that handles concealed carry permits, etc...
They really need to look at the FL Agriculture Commissioner’s race because the rats stole that one to put their antigun nut in th office that handles concealed carry permits, etc...
oh my … that’s hilarious
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