Broward recount shenanigans: 46,000 "D" votes “found” after election day, more to come

U.S. Senate – Rick Scott leads Bill Nelson by 15,092 15,079 votes (13 more votes for Nelson “found” in the past 30 minutes)

FL Governor – Ron DeSantis leads Andrew Gillum by 36,223 36,219 votes (4 more votes for Gillum “found” in past 30 minutes)

UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect that at approximately 2pm Eastern, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections posted another 11,300 votes (which broke 70-30 in favor of Democrats). This new tranche of ballots triggered a mandatory machine recount in the governor’s race and a hand recount in the U.S. Senate race.

UPDATE #2: After another update sometime after 5pm, Nelson has gained another 2,000 votes, cutting Scott’s statewide lead to just 15,092 votes. It is unclear where these last 2,000 votes came from.

UPDATE #3: Scott has ordered FDLE to investigate Broward County’s handling of ballots. Attorneys for Rick Scott have filed a lawsuit in the 17th Judicial Circuit against Broward SOE Brenda Snipes. The lawsuit demands access to public records in an effort to know how many ballots have been cast, how many have been counted and how many ballots remain to be counted. Snipes maintains that she does not have this information.

Republicans Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis may be in trouble. Despite clear margins of victory for both men on election night, Democrat election supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach counties say they aren’t done tallying up votes. Two days after the polls closed on Tuesday night, Democrat candidates Bill Nelson and Andrew Gillum benefited from nearly 46,000 Democrat votes that have been “found” in those counties and added to the statewide election outcome, throwing Florida into a partisan uproar over mandatory hand and machine recounts and the possibility that the integrity of the election process has been compromised.

Nelson already has his lawyer promising that Nelson is going to prevail, and a close advisor to Gillum posted on social media that he is aware of at least 20,000 “more” ballots that he alleges have yet to be counted: We are now 0.02% away from a legally required machine recount of @AndrewGillum vs. @RonDeSantisFL. 42,948 votes seperate the two and I’m told at least 20k votes are left to count...

— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) November 8, 2018 But it is unclear how the Gillum camp could possibly know the number of outstanding ballots – if any – especially since Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes claims she has no idea how many ballots remain to be counted:

“Not sure. I’m really not sure. But we are working on those,” Snipes told CBS4 News in Miami. Republicans have expressed frustration with Snipes, who has a long history of election “snafus.” Just days before the 2016 presidential election, Republican poll watchers discovered that Snipes and her team were illegally opening vote by mail ballots – which traditionally come from Republican voters – behind closed doors and away from the supervision of the canvassing board, whose job it is to oversee and certify the election outcome.

“This looks like intentional incompetence,” said one Republican strategist who declined to be identified. “We see it every election cycle down there. Democrat election supervisors can’t really be this incompetent, so it raises the question of whether or not they are intentionally failing to protect the integrity of the vote counting process. There’s only one reason to do that, and that’s to rig the outcome for Nelson and Gillum.”

On election night, Florida governor Rick Scott led incumbent Senator Bill Nelson by nearly 60,000 votes. The next day, Scott watched his lead inexplicably shrink. Overnight, enough new Democrat votes had been “discovered” to close the gap by 22,000 ballots. Later that day, Scott watched as Democrats in Broward added another batch of Democrat ballots favoring Nelson. This time around, it was enough to shrink Scott’s lead by another 10,000 votes.

The oddities in Broward continued again on Thursday. When Scott went to bed last night, he held a close but still decisive 30,000 vote lead. When he woke this morning, like clockwork, Broward County again had added a large tranche of Democrat votes. At about 2pm, Broward had discovered another 11,300 votes and when they were counted, they broke roughly 70-30 percent for Democrats. As of tonight (updated at 8pm), Scott leads Bill Nelson by just 22,000 17,344 15,092 15,079 votes, requiring a mandatory hand recount.

Those new votes also reduced Governor-elect Ron DeSantis’s margin of victory to just 38,515 36,223 votes, or 0.47 0.44 percentage points (as of 8pm Thursday) based on the total turnout of 8.2 million votes cast. Anything less than 0.5% triggers an automatic machine recount.

Representatives from both the Scott and DeSantis campaigns say they have attorneys and representatives on site in Broward and Palm Beach, attempting to monitor the situation, but some Republicans are concerned about partisan poll workers gaming the system during a machine recount, where poll workers manually feed ballots into a machine, rather than the actual voters themselves, as happens on election day. Worse, in the case of hand recount, Snipes and her staff may be free to determine the voter’s “intent” rather than simply allowing machines to read the ballots.

“Once we get to that level,” said the Republican strategist, “it’s going to get crazy. With Brenda Snipes running the recount in Broward County, Florida voters should be very, very concerned about the integrity of this process.”,

Canova has shown verified analytical evidence that he was cheated by the Broward SOE in the (D) primary runoff in 2016 against DWS. It was electronic voter fraud that affected certain Broward precints that was adding 7% for Debbie and subtracting another 7% from Tim’s vote count. Brenda Snipes destroyed the ballots that could have ultimately confirmed Broward’s electronic fraud.

For the record: Highlights from the Twitter feed of Tim Canova: @ Tim_Canova Running as an independent against corrupt Wasserman Schultz machine in Florida’s 23rd. TimCanovaForCongress.com 41,765 FOLLOWERS We see so much failure by institutions we used to trust.
1. Politicians from both parties who never responded to my calls to investigate Brenda Snipes.
2. Same for law enforcement on every level
3. Broward Elections staff who are complicit in crimes
4. The media for ignoring it

1. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says “trust me”- that’s a tip off not to trust her.
2. DWS says there are so many things she could’ve done to rig elections. Name them all, Debbie.
3. Snipes signs folders to destroy all the paper ballots by “mistake”
4. Do they think we’re stupid?

Replying to marcorubio @Tim_Canova -—
Scott had his chance to fire her and didn’t do it. He should have listened to Tim_Canova We called for an investigation to see what irregularities this may be.

“Despite manifold warnings about hacking for 2 years, US has made remarkably LITTLE progress in replacing vulnerable voting machines & has done even LESS to ensure that we can recover from a successful cyberattack against them.” @BrennanCenter

“Imran Awan was Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s top information technology aide. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Wasserman Schultz kept him on until he was arrested in July, trying to board a flight for Pakistan.”

Replying to @TheLastRefuge2 @Tim_Canova Scott should have intervened in 2016 when DWS stole the election from @Tim_Canova. Brenda Snipes, Broward Elections Supervisor, also ill serves overseas citizens in vote by mail. Is there anything this office actually does right?

Caught On Video: Concerned citizen sees ballots being transported in private vehicles & transferred to rented truck on Election night. This violates all chain of custody requirements for paper ballots. Were the ballots destroyed & replaced by set of fake ballots? Investigate now!

The world is now waking up to the corruption under Brenda Snipes, Elections Supervisor in Broward County, where voters are robbed & elections stolen. I’ve been sounding the alarm for 2 years. We continue to investigate the suspicious election results vs. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It’s now almost 60 hours since the polls closed and Brenda Snipes STILL doesn’t know how many votes are left to count! The results in our race are IMPOSSIBLE to believe.

Below, watch the chummy ties between Snipes and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. twitter.com/tim_canova/sta…

It’s true, Debbie Wasserman Schultz & Broward elections officials are serial riggers & they just struck again, from my race to several state-wide elections! it’s habitual, they are a menace to all of us. Person on the left and person on the right were photographed here campaigning together in the days leading up to our election. Impartial Election Supervisor? Hardly. pic.twitter.com/a5H0VkWL2p ____________

“Pst, hey Brenda, a teacher found a provisional ballot box in a storage area. You may want to send someone alone in their personal car to go fetch it. Wait til it’s dark though. You’re welcome.”

While all of Florida is piling on Brenda Snipes for violating rules by the hour, let’s not forget this gem by Wasserman Schultz. Oh, if only she didn’t dodge debate, I would’ve loved to have asked her point blank about her obstructing justice.

The hits keep rolling in with Brenda Snipes. A woman in Minnesota who hasn’t lived in Broward County for 5 years received an absentee ballot for our race against Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Photo below. Well done, Brenda.

She sure wasn’t happy in her sworn deposition where she ADMITS to illegally destroying all YOUR paper ballots in my 2016 race against Wasserman Schultz. Watch/Listen to Snipes’ LAME EXCUSE for committing felonies yet to be investigated by law enforcement.

youtube.com/watch?v=YGwG3W…

Brenda Snipes, Broward Elections Supervisor, is under scrutiny for criminal conduct & lack of transparency. I’ve been warning for months that this serial rigger would rig again in this election. It’s not about right vs left, it’s Integrity vs corruption. dailycaller.com/2018/11/08/rub-——

I’m looking forward to the day when Brenda Snipes, Broward Elections Supervisor, goes to prison for destroying every ballot cast in 2016 primary. I’m looking forward to the day when we can inspect the software for the electronic voting machines that supposedly counts every vote.

Here it is again, #102, minus some of the twitter links that messed the format.

Anyone can go to Tim’s twitter feed to get the video and picture links if they desire to see his evidence.

Canova’s point was that they were electronically manipulating the vote for DWS. His suspicion was passed to a nonpartisan analytics firm that could not reproduce the outcome, short of actually machines or precincts being manipulated, internally.

Brenda Snipes destroyed the paper trail- ballots- evidence.

He may be a lib-dem, or whatever. But he is correct, there was fraud by election workers in Broward.

Snipes should have been removed from office and the guilty parties prosecuted who tampered with the voting machines to achieve this outcome.

Canova conceded that race to DWS because he likely couldn’t afford the lawyers to muster a challenge to DWS’s political machine. Plus, she would have won anyway because the win-margin was greater than the cheating amount.

That might work for the Governor contest. The federal offices have their own rules, which they can change when they want. So if the 'Rats pull a fast one and try to slip Nelson back into the Senate, the 'Pubs should do what the 'Rats did in '84 with the Indiana 8th Congressional District. Remember that one? The Indiana SoS certified the 'Pub the winner but since the 'Rats controlled the House they refused to seat him until they, and they alone, decided the outcome based on a dizzying number of "recounts" where if the 'Rats didn't like the outcome they changed the rules and did another recount until the 'Rat "won" (by four votes out of over 233,000 cast). Well, if it comes to it, time for some payback. The 'Pubs control the Senate. Just refuse to seat Nelson until we have enough recounts (that we control) to put our guy in. The Senate, just like the House, can make their own rules. Make this one. Count those votes as often as needed.

I know there will be those who abhor such approaches. Truth is, I do, too. The purest counts are always those made on election night. But this kind of crap is going to go on forever until 'Rats start losing elections like they "win" them now. Until then, there is no incentive for the 'Rats to play fair. As long as they can "win" like they are doing here, nothing will change.

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