Posted on 11/18/2018 5:57:55 PM PST by Kaslin
Broward County once again proves that incompetence and ineptitude are the heart of their election process. Throughout this whole process, the county, a Democratic bastion, and it’s equally disastrous and liberal neighbor, Palm Beach County, have made a mockery of the 2018 election with their inability to count the friggin’ ballots. Republican Gov. Rick Scott had to file lawsuits in order to shed some light into their ballot counting processes, which a judge later found to be in violation of public records laws. They wouldn’t disclose how many outstanding ballots were left. Scott had declared victory over incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Scott still holds a razor thin lead of a little over 12,000 votes; close enough to trigger a mandatory machine recount and now the hand recount. And this is where we enter ‘you can’t make this up’ territory. On day two of the hand recount, the process had to be stopped because Broward was counting the wrong ballots. Luckily, they caught this error just in time before some serious issues could have arisen, like double counting ballots, but it doesn’t negate the fact that Broward’s Election Day operations are a total disaster (via Fox News):
Fresh off its bungled machine recount, Broward County’s second day of manual recounting temporarily stopped about an hour after it began Saturday when lawyers from both political parties pointed out that volunteers were counting the wrong ballots.
Hundreds of volunteers spent most of Friday sorting through 32,000 overvotes and undervotes in the Senate race between incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Broward officials announced Friday night they had finished their manual recount.
On Saturday, the volunteers started sorting about 22,000 undervotes and overvotes in the contentious contest for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture.
That came to a grinding halt when lawyers found thousands of overlapping ballots which clearly showed a vote in the agriculture race but were fuzzy in the Senate race.
“It appears there may have been some ballots from yesterday mixed in with the ones for today,” Broward Canvassing Board Judge Deborah Carpenter-Toye told reporters.
Forty-seven manila envelopes from the Senate recount were mixed in with the envelopes distributed for the commissioner race.
Broward County Canvassing Board Attorney Rene Harrod told Fox News the issue was caught in time and that none of the 47 envelopes made it to the canvassing board. It’s an important catch because it rules out the possibility of some votes being counted twice.
Let’s also not forget that Broward missed the machine deadline…by two minutes, which discounted their results. The original unofficial results were used instead.
UPDATE: Well, this nightmare is over. As Cortney wrote, Nelson has conceded.
BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson ends re-election bid after decades in Congress, concedes to Republican Rick Scott— The Associated Press (@AP) November 18, 2018
“incompetence and ineptitude”
I believe the correct phrase would be “criminal election fraud”.
Inept? Or just oblivious to any wrongdoing. They feel stealing and cheating is fine because they are correct thinking socialists who must win and are entitled to cheat
They couldn’t steal it in time so they gave up.
Doesn’t mean they won’t do it again - if nothing is changed - they can and will.
Sun sentinel is posting that Brenda Snipes has just resigned.
Doesn't matter. The Designated Hitter will be just as bad.
Those are the words used when Democrats invent accusations against Republicans whole cloth.
When Democrats are caught red handed they use incompetent and inept.
I’m not seeing any mention of dumpster fires in the full article. So why in the title?
Trying to escape the long arm of the law?
OR
Trying to evade disgruntled Democrats, mad as hell b/c she didnt deliver like she usually does?
So fishy. If voters are unable to convey who they are voting for their vote should not count. Simple. That whole bunch should booted out and someone with discipline, organization and the ability to train and lead workers should be put in charge. There is NO excuse for that fiasco.
Election fraud should be termed treason subject to summary execution upon discovery.
Because no one does anything about it
Why does that F Snipes still have a job? Enough with the politics and “ affirmative action”.
I’m beyond sick of this crap
Fire her ass and start asking questions
Absolutely correct. These people are far from incompetent and inept. They are very skilled at election fraud. They just want you to think they are incompetent because it’s easier to get away with stealing the election that way.
The people who write these articles are likely Democrats in on the scheme.
Well, I’ll be damned. No sooner than I posted and there’s the resignation of the crook
Now investigate her, everyone of them. Quitting isn’t enough.
“Chain of Custody” and “organized paperwork” are not advanced concepts. Not everyone has an interest in such things — but people who do this for a living SHOULD have a natural tendency to be scrupulous about the details. If you’re a methodical person, you don’t suddenly find yourself counting “the wrong ballots”.
In short: If you do this for a living, and you botch it so flagrantly, then you’re a crook trying to pull a fast one. No other excuse.
I’m sorry. How hard can it be to count ballots? Even if no fraud is involved (and I’m not sure that there isn’t) this level of incompetence rises to criminal negligence. Good grief, we are a first-world nation and we can’t count votes?
MSM doesn’t seem to find it curious that every bungle helped the Rats.
Spot on post!
“I believe the correct phrase would be “criminal election fraud”.”
It seems the chattering class just can not bring themselves to mention fraud, corruption, etc.
Reminds me of the “ll million illegal immigration” meme that all of them repeat like they are looking at a shining swinging pendulum and are in deep hypnosis.
Just notice Rush and Hannity.
How is this not a civil rights case?
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