Posted on 12/05/2016 11:03:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Protect Our Elections, a liberal-leaning group based in Washington, D.C., says more than 160,000 votes in Florida weren't counted during last month's presidential election. The group claims each of those votes matters a great deal because Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 112,911 votes in the Sunshine State. Trump won by roughly 1.5 percent, a margin high enough to avoid the state's automatic-recount provisions.
But last Friday, Protect Our Elections sued the state to contest the election, possibly throwing President-elect Trump's transition into an even greater state of turmoil.
For the past 30 days, failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein has launched a much-ballyhooed (but perfectly legal) attempt to recount votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, forcing the country to grapple with the question of exactly how hackable our election system really is. But despite how crucial Florida's 29 Electoral College votes are to the election, nobody has thrown Florida's election results under the microscope until now.
After raising more than $65,000 online, Protect Our Elections sued to contest the election at 11:48 p.m. Friday, a scant 12 minutes before the state's election-lawsuit deadline. The group claims — citing what looks to be extremely shaky evidence — the vote totals do not include "tens of thousands" of legal votes that weren't counted because of alleged vote-machine malfunctions, but do include "tens of thousands of illegal votes that were improperly counted."
In addition, the lawsuit claims that at least 25,000 mail-in ballots were requested but never received in Broward County, that the state's voting machines could have been hacked, and that Florida this year posted an "abnormally high invalid vote rate."
"The number of uncounted votes, together with the illegal votes and the lack of integrity of the voting machines, is more than sufficient to call in doubt the results of the election," the suit says.
According to state law, any taxpayer in Florida can sue to contest an election, provided he or she files ten days after the state's votes are certified. Three Leon County residents — Leonisia Olivares, Jerry W. Lapidus, and Judith L. Craig — sued Friday in Leon County Court.
In Florida, the mere mention of the word "recount" triggers epileptic shock in anyone over the age of 30. In 2000, the state was the sight of the most notorious presidential recount in American history: After improperly stamped paper ballots caused scanner errors, the entire election was thrown into disarray and famously ended only after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively declared George W. Bush the winner.
But while Broward County's "hanging chads" in 2000 rightfully held up the most important election in the developed world, Protect Our Elections' lawsuit is a bit more dubious. The group is suing Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, state Attorney General Pam Bondi, and a host of election officials, claiming there is "massive evidence of electronic voting machine malfunctioning."
The group claims the Diebold and Dominion voting machines the state uses are highly susceptible to hacking. Though that claim is certainly true, Protect Our Elections' lawsuit provides no evidence that Florida's 2016 election was hacked. The suit instead claims that, because predictive models said Clinton would win handily, Trump's win is suspicious enough to demand the state double-check the results.
However, the group points to a 233 percent jump in the number of uncounted ballots as evidence that something strange may have happened. According to the suit, 0.75 percent of the statewide votes were deemed "invalid" in the 2008 and 2012 elections. This year, 1.67 percent of the votes were invalidated.
"Excessively high invalid vote rates are extremely suspicious, and generally are considered an indication of possible problems such as machine malfunctions or tampering," the suit alleges.
Polls oversampled Democrats.
Once you open the Pandora’s Box....it simply will trigger a loss eventually with the Electoral College...in that only 49, or 47, or 40 states were able to vote. Once the general public accepts that...then the Republicans will go and work to ensure that they are locked-up solid with 26 states having control over the House of Representatives, and you can guarantee in every single election...a Republican President.
One does not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the simple strategy here. Toss in the 2020 Census coming up, and the number of states which will be virtually guaranteed to stay Republican-dominated...this gimmick would seem to be an awful stupid strategy for the Democratic Party.
More of Hillary trying to steal the elections using some proxy.
‘Group’ has a collective death wish.
I was just about to post this. Remember when the left fretted over whether or not Trump will accept election results? It is they who protested the results of the election and they who have done recounts. Imagine the outrage if the reverse had occurred. Stein has opened a Pandora’s box. The left is going to want to recount every single swing state Trump won.
How did they get nice new yellow execution overalls, amazon? Find out who pays ISIS’s bills, and you’re home.
orange. it’s the absinthe...
The nazis were smarter. They put their prisoners in front of lathes and milling machines.
Push polling used too with things said that no Republican would waste time on the phone listening to.
ISIS is dumb. They execute those who could most benefit their cause. They are nothing but death. Even the Nazis wanted to preserve German culture as they saw it. ISIS stands for nothing but mass graves and a swath of destruction. Jackoff muslim reprobates getting back on the planet the only way they know, fully funded by outside sources.
Your comment would be mine as well. Just how and with what do these execution garments come into being? Do they employ seamstresses to make one per prisoner? Do they purchase ready made? And if they purchase how do they break down the sizes by quantity? Inventory show more of one size than another?
“Hey, fellows, do NOT capture any short victims today. All we have are extra tall and stout in inventory. We sure would want a prisoner to go and trip over his pants leg, break his neck and deprive the public from what they came here to see.
Terrorists-R-Us.com
for all your depraved needs...
The ISIS fighters, despite the stories that they are a grass roots thing always seem to have new sneakers, camo outfits, and machine guns. Makes me say ‘hmmmm’.
Truly amazing, these ‘grass roots persons’ who have probably never held a job (other than slaughter other humans) have the money to fund their prisoner wardrobe, transportation, weapons. And yet, we who do work here in America are unable to afford any of these things. Our money is being used there and, thus, we are the ‘needy’ due to the handiwork of our ‘honorable DC keepers’
Something is just not right in this thinking.
The middle east is rife with drugs and homosexuality but the mainstream media won’t touch it. ISIS wants to control the drug trade despite their ‘fundamentalist’ motives.
I did a quick search, and the sites carrying this story are places like politico, DU, and pro- illary sites.
Hmmm....
Oh, yes~ and the DC keepers would want to continue this travesty. When Iraq was invaded, Bill O’R was written and asked why didn’t the US military burn the poppy fields. No reply. Seems the MFM walks in step with any and every enemy with whom we are at odds.
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