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In Critical Broward County, Hope for Bill Nelson Fades as Hand Recount Begins
Mother Jones ^ | November 16, 2018 | Pema Levy

Posted on 11/16/2018 8:41:03 AM PST by Trump20162020

As the hand recount in Florida’s contentious Senate election got underway in Broward County, it quickly became clear that Democrats were headed for a bad day. This is the county where incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson needed to net thousands of new votes on Friday. But minutes into the recount, that became unlikely.

Broward County is at the center of Nelson’s hopes for defeating Republican Rick Scott, who currently leads by fewer than 13,000 votes, because there were tens of thousands of ballots in the county that registered no vote in the Senate race. Because Broward is a heavily Democratic county, the Nelson campaign had hoped that those so-called undervotes were actually votes for Nelson that the tabulating machines had skipped over. But on Friday morning, it quickly became apparent that this was not the case.

Instead, it’s likely ballot design that put a significant dent in Nelson’s vote totals here in Broward County, and may have cost him the race. The Senate candidates were listed right under the instructions on the ballot, and voters moving quickly could easily have overlooked that race.

(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2018; billnelson; broward; browardcounty; recount; rickscott; senate
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Say what you will about Mother Jones, but their reporter has been on the ball this morning covering the manual recount, and it's looking real bad for Nelson:

https://twitter.com/pemalevy

1 posted on 11/16/2018 8:41:03 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

A feel good story.


2 posted on 11/16/2018 8:42:09 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (Localization, not Globalization)
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To: Trump20162020

and when Mother Jones throws in the towel...


3 posted on 11/16/2018 8:46:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Trump20162020

I think the Dems overplayed their hand here. In desperation to keep their losses in the Senate to a minimum they exposed part of their scheme to steal the 2020 presidential race. Will the hapless GOP sit on their hands as usual and do nothing to combat this? The answer is of course no because the leadership of the party is still globalist and anti-Trump. They want the president to lose as badly as the Democrats do!


4 posted on 11/16/2018 8:48:48 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Trump20162020

He lost because stupid voters couldn’t figure out where to mark the ballot? Over 8 million people were able to figure it out. People that stupid shouldn’t vote in the first place.


5 posted on 11/16/2018 8:49:00 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Trump20162020

Instead, it’s likely ballot design that put a significant dent in Nelson’s vote totals here in Broward County, and may have cost him the race.
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Yeah, sure.
Well, they have been electing Brenda Snipes since Yeb! appointed her and this is not the first bad ballot design.


6 posted on 11/16/2018 8:50:18 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump20162020

It’s the ballots fault...got it.


7 posted on 11/16/2018 8:51:08 AM PST by V_TWIN (Contrary to popular belief Height does not = superiority.....physical OR mental.)
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To: Trump20162020

Scott needs to fire Snipes and appoint a good replacement ASAP.


8 posted on 11/16/2018 8:52:01 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: dowcaet

Will the hapless GOP sit on their hands as usual and do nothing to combat this?
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I’d say the answer to that question is yes.
Precisely for the reasons you mentioned, they want to keep the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) alive.


9 posted on 11/16/2018 8:52:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

DeSantis 1st official act should be to begin proceedings to remove her...and her crony pals.


10 posted on 11/16/2018 8:52:52 AM PST by V_TWIN (Contrary to popular belief Height does not = superiority.....physical OR mental.)
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To: jospehm20

It better be better than the appointment that Yeb! made in 2002, Brenda Snipes.


11 posted on 11/16/2018 8:53:49 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump20162020

Hope fades for Bill Nelson as hope SOARS for Florida.
Gillum got one more vote in a recount & won’t concede.
Hellary set the double standard.
Saved,at least temporarily, from the fetid scourge of socialism.
Hopefully, the anti gun rights Democrat Ag Commissioner candidate who would be in charge of issuing gun permits will fail too.


12 posted on 11/16/2018 8:54:30 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: V_TWIN

So it’s the Butterfly Ballots 2.0 not that a bunch of black voters didn’t care which white dude won. Got it.


13 posted on 11/16/2018 8:55:33 AM PST by gibsonguy
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"Not to worry guys.....with a beloved president like me campaigning for you, you'll slaughter Scott and DeSantis."

14 posted on 11/16/2018 8:55:40 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Trump20162020

My question is, how is this going to be prevented in the future, especially 2020?


15 posted on 11/16/2018 8:56:50 AM PST by diamond6 (Everybody who is for abortion have already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You know what I answered my own question wrong! Gees, lol. Of course I meant to say yes they’ll sit on their hands and do nothing, and hope people forget about all this when DeSantis and Scott are finally declared the winners in Florida!


16 posted on 11/16/2018 8:57:52 AM PST by dowcaet
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Bastards stole like 30,000+ votes from Rick Scott before the HEAT got too intense for them to get even more!!!
17 posted on 11/16/2018 8:57:57 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

ping


18 posted on 11/16/2018 8:58:30 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: dowcaet

DeSantis needs to remove both Snipes and Bucher as soon as the election is certified. Get competent, non-corrupt people in both counties.


19 posted on 11/16/2018 8:59:46 AM PST by jyo19
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To: gibsonguy

Scott should fire snipes for causing Nelson to lose by her poorly designed ballots....hahahaha


20 posted on 11/16/2018 9:00:18 AM PST by davidb56
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