Posted on 11/09/2018 5:07:47 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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 governors 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 Scotts 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 Countys 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 arent 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 Im 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. Im 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 cant 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. Theres only one reason to do that, and thats 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 Scotts 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 DeSantiss 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 voters intent rather than simply allowing machines to read the ballots.
Once we get to that level, said the Republican strategist, its 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.,
This goes beyond “Shenanigans” imho.
Don’t you find it interesting that there is nothing said about the down ticket races? If they found that many ballots that broke for Nelson, what about the other races?
It should be fairly simple. If there is no “chain of custody” for ballots found, then they aren’t counted. This “finding ballot boxes in a closet” stuff has to stop.
If Snipe is this incompetent then she has to be removed for cause. With her track record she shouldn’t be involved in the voting process at all.
Re pic of Snipes:
Look at that face, and tell me she’s a crook.
Yup. Bush v Gore set a precedent that the Dems are going to live to regret. We are in for months of frustrating legal haggling though.
Nobody is going to investigate, let alone stop this fraud where ever it occurs. FL, AZ, GA, WI. The marxists are stealing our franchise in their lust for power and this will continue until the republic is done.
They don’t even need physical ballots when they just keep announcing that somewhere more votes have come in and they can’t even tell you from where they can’t even tell you why there are votes still to be counted from somewhere
The FEDS should be SWARMING this office!!
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE VILE, EVIL, VICIOUS, LYING, CHEATING DESTROYERS OF GOOD PEOPLE!
I hope u r right.
Broward County as Palm Beach County must
be punished for breaking state law.
Those responsible for breaking the law
must go to jail.
Any votes that were not posted within the
State law time limits must be thrown out.
I don’t know about Florida, but in my state, each county has a board of elections that is lead by both an R and a D to keep funny stuff to a minimum. If one side or the other pulls a fast one, the opposing side has eyes and a voice to bring it out to the public. Does Florida have a similar set up?
SCOTUS, new and improved...
We have yet to truly imagine the dividends that will be paid. But why not start now?
Dust the ballots for finger prints. Impanel a grand jury and get these democrat dirtbags under oath. Now.
When the history of this time is written, Senator Graham’s outburst during the Bimbo Ford circus and Senator Collins’ speech during the final Kavanaugh debate will be mentioned.
The current 5-4 Supreme Court is the penultimate backstop of our Republic. The United States Marine Corps is the ultimate backstop of our Republic.
I am confident that what is going on now with the Dems is their Ardennes Offensive. Once they lose this, their defeat is certain.
Scott is mainline GOPe so the GOP will fight this in court. After the horse has left the barn of course.
As it stands now, you appear to be correct.
If Trump and the DOJ do nothing...
Trump warned people about election fraud. Well, is Trump a man of his word?
How is it that no one seems to have anticipated this?
Bravo sir, bravo!
Fight!!
I wouldnt be so sure of that.
Fingers crossed.
There is a narrative in this story, and it is the DNCMedia narrative.
Republicans are upset. Republicans accuse. Republicans state.
They report only that angle. There’s no third party review, they’re making this into an us versus them construct, rather than report on the observable fraud and incompetence, they will turn it into the “Republicans and their lawyers, using the power of the REPUBLICAN governor, to steal the election and disenfranchise poor people of color.”
The outrage on the Left, insatiated by winning the House, will once again be enlarged and the protests, violence and ugliness will be daily news at 6:00PM for the drivebys to “analyze” and then, naturally, as neutral observers, < /s> condemn Rick Scott, President Trump and the Republicans.
Film at 11.
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