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 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.”,
“The Supreme Court will disallow any votes counted in after hours.
The scotus came through in 2001, they will this time too.”
Lord I pray that happens and I hope Justice Kavanaugh is the deciding vote!
‘Shenanigans’ ??
How about Felonies !
How about serious prison time !
They have successfully deligitimized Scott, deSantis, Kemp, and McSally already. Even if all are eventually certified as winners, the Left’s media drumbeat for the next few years will be that they “stole” their wins from innocent and deserving progressive challengers.
It’s obvious now that the Dems will never admit they got beat in election and move on. If they lose it’s illegitimate. Always.
Anyone else detect a theme in that pic in #10 ?
Yes, because the felonies should be handled by the authorities. I am talking about a call to citizens to do what they do best, act when the government seems paralyzed to act or acts illegally with impunity. Right now, Scott is doing what he can do within established law which is to seize the ballots and go to court for injunctive relief.
It is always sunny in s. florida..
They continue that mantra about the 2000 election.
If Paul Ryan had wanted to ‘do good’ for the country he should have safe-guarded the vote rather than doing BS tax cuts.
I’d rather live in a free country than have a few extra dollars in my pocket.
As soon as democrats rig enough elections we’ll NEVER be able to keep secure an honest vote. When that happens democrats will open the borders and let in a hundred million illegals from corrupt hellholes and that will be the end of our country.
The end of our freedom.
The end of a life worth living.
We’ll become one more of hundreds of brown poor hellholes with a small corrupt ‘elite’ ruling by force and threats. YOUR children and grandchildren will go hungry, starve or be tortured... just like happens in all the brown hellholes the world over. It’s not the ‘land’ or ‘resources’ that make these countries hellholes - it’s the culture - the one a hundred million illegals will bring with them. Overwhelming ours...
YES, people are equal before the law - but cultures are NOT equal - some create misery, corruption. poverty and violence and others create civilization...
That assumes they don't mix the "found" ballots in with the ballots that were properly handled during the election. If they do, how can you tell, and how can you unscramble the omelet?
My denigrating the use of the term ‘shenanigans’ was, of course, to point out yet again the Left’s continuing Orwellian cooption of our language to minimize what are certainly multiple felonies.
Tragically, millions of sheep are either unaware or simply don’t care that they’re being lied to.
There’s truly not a dime’s worth of difference between today’s Left and the upstart Nazis of the early/mid 30s.
Only the names have changed while the tactics and strategies remain the same.
While understanding what you’re saying re Scott’s current efforts, the real question is, should legal means fail, are we prepared to emulate Britain’s or Vichy’s stance in the aftermath ?
They broke the chain of custody when they hired private trucks to scuttle the ballots.
A 2016 candidate, Casova, who they cheated in order to allow DWS to win has it all on tape.
The article from the Capitolist had a great pic of Snipes, maybe you can post that one, too.
I’m telling you this. It takes a large group to manufacture this quantity of new ballots. Unless they had them filled out BEFORE the election, at their ready. They very well may have done that.
Theoretically, they could complete mounds of absentee ballots for the folks that rarely vote. Once the election has passed, they simply FIND them.
The attorneys for Rick & Ron need to begin contacting these folks for verification or forcing the Snipes to show proof that these voters requested ballots.
Absentee & Early voting is ripe for fraud.
These people have had FOURTY days to cast their vote, there’s no excuse for this, but FRAUD.
Yes, they had these ballots in a “back-up bag” or “democrat emergency bag” to steal the election. Plain & Simple.
We need to truly change the headlines- storybook- theme from nefarious “Russian Collusion” to our own domestic threat to elections....
“Broward Collusion.”
I was in line to vote in an Atlanta suburb. The “liberal” guy in front of me stepped up to get his electronic ballot card. The pole volunteer told him he had requested an absentee ballot. This man said he had changed his mind and wanted to vote in person. The volunteer told him he would have to turn in the absentee ballot to be destroyed if he wanted to vote in person. Of course he threw a fit, but thank goodness the volunteer held firm. This is how they cheat! Someone (Trump) needs to get on all the election fraud before we lose this country.
Milwaukee county found 30,000 votes for demrat Evers at 2am Wednesday, obliterating the all night tie he had with Gov Walker. Walker conceded Wednesday rather than fighting the fraud.
Broward is a Rat-infested Democrat Cess-Pool.
Deb. Wasserman Schultz, ....Sheriff Scott Israel....
Take a look at the SOE and draw your own conclusions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3704342/posts?page=10#10
Note the gal wearing a giant BHO photo shirt for election group photo:
https://www.browardsoe.org/Press-Room/Photo-Gallery
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