Posted on 11/10/2018 12:27:43 PM PST by Kaslin
The state of Florida, and therefore the nation, is forced to wait for the verdict of three statewide races thanks to the negligence of Palm Beach and Broward County election officials Susan Bucher and Brenda Snipes. Each county submitted their unofficial election results on Saturday after days of confusion, misplaced ballots, and questionable counting methods but the statewide process will continue due to the close margin of error in Florida's Governor, Senate, and Florida Agriculture Commissioner races.
Now, Florida's Secretary of State has officially ordered a statewide recount.
BREAKING: Florida secretary of state orders recounts in U.S. Senate, governor races.— The Associated Press (@AP) November 10, 2018
ABC News Local 10 explains why these races will now go to a recount:
Florida law requires a machine recount when the leading candidate’s margin is 0.5 percentage points or less, and a hand recount if it’s 0.25 or less.
- As of noon Saturday, Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis had a slight lead against his Democratic rival, Andrew Gillum by 33,684 votes, a margin of .41 percentage points.
- In the Senate race, Republican Gov. Rick Scott was ahead of Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes, a margin of .15 percentage points.
- In the race for Florida Agriculture Commissioner, Democrat Nikki Fried was leading Republican rival Matt Caldwell by 5,326 votes, a margin of 0.06 percentage points.
As Matt has reported, both Broward County and Palm Beach County have been plagued by incompetence, peculiarities, and even misplaced provisional ballots which could have a major impact on all three races. Snipes, a long time election official with a poor track record of doing her job, has abdicated any responsibility for failing to properly count her county's votes. Bucher has characterized accusations of mismanagement and voter fraud as questionably racist.
In what many believe is not a coincidental occurrence, the ballots that have been turned in after election day are seemingly shifting the races towards Democratic candidates. Both DeSantis and Scott have pledged to fight in courts any apparent fraud as votes are counted.
Two questions:
Does anybody know WHEN this recount must take place?
AND
Will Snipes and the other cheater be in charge of their counties’ recounting? IF SO, they will steal the election!!!
It does not.
Elections have consequences, Kavanaugh is on the bench, the feds are stepping in, and thousands of illegals voted for Democrats. Democrats are losing control of the recount process.
You realise (do you not? ) that a federal audit of the vote that goes nationwide will cost Democrats the house.
They were aware that Buzzy Ginsberg is unlikely to make it another two years, and Brower may not either. They have bet everything on this election, and crapped out.
that sounds very reassuring!
thanks!
“recounts are not about finding new ballots, it is about counting existing ballots.”
Sadly the “existing ballots” that are being counted are those that have been monkeyed with between Tuesday night and today. So it’s not literally a RE-count of votes cast. It’s the count of votes cast, PLUS the recently “discovered” (wink wink) ballots.
Ignorance, incompetence, low IQ, low performer are all cover crap for out and out intentional, malicious evil and law breaking. I don’t buy any of the Clintonian “I don’t remember” rhetoric.
If elections can be stolen with phony ballots and ballots marked by illegal aliens, why should we even vote? We are on the edge of civilizational collapse here.
Yes, those descriptions imply that they are merely stupid and uninformed.
They are hard core leftists of the Alinsky School practicing their dark art.
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