Posted on 10/09/2020 5:12:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A federal judge has denied a motion to extend voter registration even though a computer meltdown on the final day of registration might have prevented thousands of potential voters from taking part in November’s presidential election.
In a 29-page ruling on Friday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Mark E. Walker noted the historical problems the state seems to have with elections.
“Notwithstanding the fact that cinemas across the country remain closed, somehow, I feel like I’ve seen this movie before. Just shy of a month from election day, with the earliest mail-in ballots beginning to be counted, Florida has done it again,” Walker wrote.
Walker took umbrage at a state lawyer’s argument that other venues were available to register to vote, including in-person at an elections office or by mail.
“With the public sounding the alarm, the Secretary of State decided to implement a half measure,” Walker wrote. “She hastily and briefly extended the registration period and ordered Florida’s supervisors of election to accept applications submitted by the Secretary’s new ‘book closing’ deadline.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
On February 16, 2012, President Obama nominated Walker to serve as District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.[3] He replaced Judge Stephan P. Mickle who took senior status in 2011. His nomination was forwarded by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the full United States Senate on June 7, 2012.[5] The United States Senate voted to confirm Walker on December 6, 2012 in a 94–0 vote. He received his commission on December 7, 2012.[4] He became Chief Judge in June 2018.
haha YES. Poor cheating dems.
Why is it that only democrats seek to extend the voter registration time? What’s in it for them?
Most important question is:
With so much time in the year in which people can register to vote, why does it come down to the last few days for them to get it done? It’s not like they weren’t aware that there’s an election coming up and that they need to register of they wish to be counted.
Answer to all voter related questions is that, the democrats seek more time in which they can set up their plans to cheat.
At least the headline writer got it right.
You had all month, all year, years to register to vote. That you did not is not the process's fault. It's yours.
Probably saw that the registrations were trending Republican so did not extend it. Normal leftist judges would not do this otherwise.
With this and Wisconsin, I’m thinking these judges don’t want to be shown up by SCOTUS...
I think Trump shinning a light on this blew their strategy sky high. Why else is Biden suddenly on the campaign trail? The federal courts are starting to side with the rule of law but the Dems are all in with vote by mail. They canibalized their election day vote (i hope and think). It’s a shame Trump can’t be doing his multi state swings right now. It’s a bit on the voters to stay enthusiastic and ready to rock. Get on the vote. If you’re not already go knock on some doors and make sure Trump turnout is high wherever you live
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer, an Obama judge to boot! Remarkable!
...even though a computer meltdown on the final day of registration might have prevented thousands of potential voters from taking part in November's presidential election. In a 29-page ruling on Friday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Mark E. Walker noted... “Notwithstanding the fact that cinemas across the country remain closed, somehow, I feel like I've seen this movie before. Just shy of a month from election day, with the earliest mail-in ballots beginning to be counted, Florida has done it again,” Walker wrote.
Ruled correctly, but made sure the media had a lot of anti-republican talking points.
On the other hand, someone needs to look into what actually happened to that system. Florida has 21 million residents. Of that number, in march 13,536,830 were registered to vote.
Since that point, the democrats (and republicans) have been running registration drives to get their people out.
On september 24th, politico ran a story about how republicans had nearly caught up to democrats in raw registration numbers.In August, republicans added 58,000 new voters. That’s about 2000 a day, and was considered a great acheivement.
The democrats had set a goal of registering 1 million new voters. Over the course of the year, the party itself got 89,000 of a total of about 265,000 new registrants including their democratic partners.
Now, on the day the server crashed, they were getting 1.1 MILLION REGISTRATION REQUESTS each hour.
In other words, in ONE hour, the system was hit with more requests than both parties together had accomplished in an entire year, in a state where there might be 3 million eligible adults that still are not registered to vote.
Clearly, there was a denial-of-service attack. It could have been democrats — crash the system, file a lawsuit, blame republicans, get democrats riled up, maybe you manage to get another 5-7 days of registration and can get more democrats out. Clearly they weren’t expecting any more democrats to register, having been working that for a year.
Or, it could have been republicans fearful of last-minute surge in democratic registrations, and thinking they could block it.
I put my money on the first. The state pushed the deadline back a day, so anybody who actually was having trouble on the 5th could do it on the 6th.
But there is one point that is accurate. The Democrats are NEVER ready for an election, even though they know that there is going to be another one in four years. It's always something like people can't get an ID, or they moved and haven't had time to register, or ballots get lost, or on election day, machines "malfunction" and it delays the count, or they don't have enough workers to complete a count. Yes, the one thing we can COUNT on is every election, the Democrats aren't ready for it.
Agree - been talking up Trump most every where I go.
Plus - he’s looking at 2 possible rallies this weekend - tomorrow is the day his doctors declared it “safe” for him to get out.
And the good news of how the drug cocktails seem to have worked should hearten everyone because it means the death rates will drop almost out of sight...which the Dems consider to be bad news...
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