Posted on 11/09/2018 10:41:00 AM PST by Evil Slayer
Bottom Line in Florida: Broward County Election Officials Have Been Violating the Law
By now, you know that Republicans are raising the alarm over what's happening in Florida, as the margins apparent election night GOP victories -- punctuated by Democratic concessions -- are being whittled down in a heavily blue county. As expected, Democrats are falsely accusing the GOP of wanting to stop the process of counting votes. Republicans counter by raising a top Broward County election official's known history of malfeasance and incompetence, aggressively accusing the opposition party of try to steal an election, noting that the county has "discovered" tens of thousands of votes since election day, refusing to say how many more there are, or where they've been. Some of this may be dismissed as partisan shouting over the dramatic denouement of yet another tight Florida contest. But it's important to understand that overwhelmingly liberal Broward and Palm Beach Counties have been in ongoing violation of election law. That is the central issue here:
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I hope that you are correct.
Bush v Gore going to the US Supreme Court is the only time one of these has ever gone in Republicans favor.
The lead for Scott is still 15,000 and for DeSantis, it’s 36,000. The dems are out of altitude and airspace.
If they do, then they need to make sure this is the last election we have this problem.
Bush v. Gore is also the precedent that applies here.
Stare Decisis, anyone?
In Florida
(5)A ballot shall be counted only if:
(a)It is returned in the return mailing envelope;
(b)The elector’s signature has been verified as provided in this subsection; and
(c)It is received by the supervisor of elections not later than 7 p.m. on the day of the election.
The supervisor of elections shall verify the signature of each elector on the return mailing envelope with the signature on the elector’s registration records. Such verification may commence at any time prior to the canvass of votes. The supervisor of elections shall safely keep the ballot unopened in his or her office until the county canvassing board canvasses the vote....
(6)The canvassing board may begin the canvassing of mail ballots at 7 a.m. on the sixth day before the election, including processing the ballots through the tabulating equipment. However, results may not be released until after 7 p.m. on election day. Any canvassing board member or election employee who releases any result before 7 p.m. on election day commits a felony of the third degree...
101.67;Safekeeping of mailed ballots; deadline for receiving vote-by-mail ballots.—
(1);The supervisor of elections shall safely keep in his or her office any envelopes received containing marked ballots of absent electors, and he or she shall, before the canvassing of the election returns, deliver the envelopes to the county canvassing board along with his or her file or list kept regarding said ballots.
(2);Except as provided in s. 101.6952(5), all marked absent electors’ ballots to be counted must be received by the supervisor by 7 p.m. the day of the election. All ballots received thereafter shall be marked with the time and date of receipt and filed in the supervisor’s office.
101.6952;Vote-by-mail ballots for absent uniformed services and overseas voters
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0101/Sections/0101.6952.html
Bush v Gore going to the US Supreme Court is the only time one of these has ever gone in Republicans favor.
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And boy were they pissed!
Good! Thanks for the info.
Listening to Rush talking about this today, Broward and Palm Beach aren't even being discrete. Almost three full days after the polls closed, they are still "finding" (i.e. manufacturing) additional votes for losing Democrat candidates in blatant, in-your-face violation of election laws enacted specifically to prevent exactly what it is that these election officials are doing.
There is no way I can see that Florida's overwhelming Republican-controlled state government will allow this to stand. President Trump certainly won't. Florida is vital to his reelection strategy.
Maybe PB and Broward need to be FReeped again?
It worked back in 2000.
“Sore Loserman”
5.56mm
"The dems are out of altitude and airspace."
Sadly, the Dems are not out of somebody else’s money, unconstitutional federal taxes a great example.
Republicans winning Florida is not the real problem imo.
The problem is that Florida has a history of rigged elections.
This must stop.
Patriots must support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the “broomstick of the wicked witch.”
Consider that the repeal amendment need a provision to prohibit political party support for federal politicians elected by ordinary voters.
The 16th Amendment needs to disappear too.
One article said after Bush V Gore, they went to electronic voting then went BACK to paper ballots at some point. Except they’re not punch cards now, I guess they’re things people actually write on...as if THAT is any more reliable. Are they insane? I can’t understand people thinking it’s better to stay in the dark ages technologically.
If you have to rely on humans reading and counting ANYTHING, you open things up to errors and very easy fraud. You can’t “throw out” electronic votes. You can’t “find” electronic votes. And you can’t miscount or misread them.
This sh*t won’t stop until these DemonRats are in prison...especially the ‘king pins’.
That’s precisely why they don’t use electronic ballots, probably.
I am in Orange, though, and we use paper ballots that are counted electronically. You blacken in a circle and the machine tabulates it. We don’t have that problem. I would not blame the ballots. I would say it’s fraud. Every county in the State can do it except these two. They use the claim of incompetence to cover up their fraud.
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