FL SEN: Oh, So 200,000 Non-Citizens Might Have Voted In 2018
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Nov 12, 2018 1:50 PM
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The ballot counting in Florida elections is a shambles. The
gubernatorial race is a shambles. The agricultural commissioner’s race is a
shambles. And the Senate race is a shambles. We’re all heading for recounts in
these races—and the two counties that keep chipping away at GOP vote totals,
Broward and Palm Beach, are the most liberal
in the state. They’ve violated state law by not posting regular
updates on ballots left outstanding.
A judge recently ruled
that the counties
violated public records laws—and the whole ballot counting process
has been done in secret. So, yes, it’s right that Gov. Rick Scott, the
Republican U.S. Senate candidate who has declared victory, recently filed a lawsuit
over this nonsense. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has also
joined the lawsuit.
#Florida law requires counties report
early voting & vote-by-mail within 30 minutes after polls close. 43 hours
after polls closed 2 Democrat strongholds #BrowardCounty & #PalmBeachCounty are still counting &
refusing to disclose how many ballots they have left to count. #Sayfie
Broward
County’s elections supervisor, Brenda Snipes, can't do her job. She’s destroyed
congressional ballots in 2016, has forgotten to add amendments to ballots, and
there are serial issues with mail-in ballots (via Miami Herald):
Following a court
ruling in May that Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes had illegally
destroyed ballots from a 2016 congressional race, the governor’s office
announced the Florida Department of State would send election experts to
Snipes’ office during this year’s election “to ensure that all laws are
followed” and “to observe the administration of the election.”
[…]
Even beyond her own
reprimand for authorizing the destruction of ballots, Snipes cannot deny the
department’s patchy track record. In 2016, early voting results for Broward
were posted a half hour before polls closed, in violation of election law. Her
office was sued unsuccessfully because a constitutional amendment was missing
from some mail-in ballots. The electronic system used by the county was also
later found to have been targeted by Russian government hackers — although it’s
unclear whether that affected results and had nothing to do with the early
posting.
On multiple occasions,
there have been problems with printing mail ballots. And in the August
primaries, Broward was the last county to post election results. The department
cited reasons from unexpected recounts, delayed jump drive delivery — rumor was
they were temporarily lost — to a late influx of mail-in ballots that were still
being counted the next day, leaving the results of several races unclear .
“We
have consistently been the bottom of the barrel getting our voting results in,”
Broward County Commissioner Nan Rich said at a September meeting to discuss how
to prevent future delays in posting results. “I don’t want to be 67th in 67
counties again in voting.”
To boot, Broward and
Palm Beach decided they were going to just ignore
the court order for all public information requests concerning
outstanding ballots. Oh, and there’s this disturbing
tidbit Florida State University College of Law Professor
Michael Morley found within the documents of Scott’s lawsuit:
Michael Morley, a
professor at Florida State University College of Law, noted something from
the documents of the Scott lawsuit that should raise anyone’s eyebrows.
Okay—well maybe not for Democrats because they will choose to ignore it.
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