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Mishaps, Protest And Litigation Overshadow Florida Recount
WPal /AP ^ | November 12,2018 | Tamara Lush

Posted on 11/13/2018 4:43:28 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After Republicans, including President Donald Trump, made unsubstantiated accusations of illegal activity, a judge on Monday urged the warring sides in the Florida recount to "ramp down the rhetoric," saying it eroded public confidence in the election for Senate and governor....[snip]

....but lawyers for the Republican party and the GOP candidates joined with Trump in alleging that irregularities, unethical behavior and fraud have taken place since the polls closed last week.

"An honest vote count is no longer possible" in Florida, Trump declared Monday, without elaborating. He demanded that the election night results — which showed the Republicans leading based upon incomplete ballot counts — be used to determine the winner.

Trump went on to allege that "new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," and that ballots are "massively infected."...[snip]

Snipes acknowledged Monday that "there have been issues that haven't gone the way we wanted." She said "you can call it a mistake or you can call it whatever you want to call it."... [snip]

... Scott's lawyers alleged that Snipes was engaging in "suspect and unlawful vote counting practices" that violate state law and that she might "destroy evidence of any errors, accidents or unlawful conduct." ...[snip]

Bipartisan experts agree that voter fraud is a rare phenomenon across the nation. That didn't stop protests outside Snipes' office, where a mostly Republican crowd gathered, holding signs, listening to country music and occasionally chanting "lock her up," referring to Snipes.

A massive Trump 2020 flag flew over the parking lot.

(Excerpt) Read more at wbal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2018election; broward; corruption; electionfraud; lockherup; rickscott; snipes; stopthesteal; votetheft
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Snipes acknowledged that "there have been issues that haven't gone the way we wanted." She said "you can call it a mistake or you can call it whatever you want to call it."

Okay, Great, Brenda:

"We will call it ....C H E A T I N G & F R A U D, ...because that is exactly what IT is."

"lawyers for the Republican party and the GOP candidates joined with Trump in alleging that

irregularities, unethical behavior and fraud have taken place since the polls closed last week."

1 posted on 11/13/2018 4:43:28 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

They need to start fixing the root of the problem. This sort of thing goes back to (at least) 2000. Now we have 2020 approaching, and I don’t think we need another dirty Florida election.


2 posted on 11/13/2018 4:46:04 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Bipartisan voter experts say that voter fraud is rare...

No, vote fraud indictments and convictions are rare....making the problem worse.

The only people howling about vote fraud are Republicans. Why?

Asking for ID as a voter makes democrats howl. Why?


3 posted on 11/13/2018 4:48:15 AM PST by Professional
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“judge on Monday urged the warring sides in the Florida recount to “ramp down the rhetoric,” saying it eroded public confidence in the election for Senate and governor.”

Flush out your head gear judge, we’re WAY past that.


4 posted on 11/13/2018 4:48:59 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Don’t you just love how AP describes voter fraud as “mishaps”?


5 posted on 11/13/2018 4:50:38 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: ClearCase_guy

Clean house. The whole lot is like a mafia crime family.

Hire fresh people, perhaps import the Super. from an outside county.

24/7 surveillance inside plus perimeter.

Strip the rolls of aliens and the dead.

Billboards & Tipline for Vote Fraud =10K reward

Prosecute offenders, retroactively as well.


6 posted on 11/13/2018 4:51:25 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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“After Republicans, including President Donald Trump, made unsubstantiated accusations of illegal activity”

I could have sworn I saw video over the weekend of ballots being transferred from pickup trucks to a large moving truck by who knows who. Thats not illegal activity? Not to mention missing deadlines that are mandated by state law IIRC. So that statement right there is BS.


7 posted on 11/13/2018 4:52:02 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Demonicrat treason and RINOcrat cowardice overeshadow the election votes.


8 posted on 11/13/2018 4:54:36 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Col Frank Slade

Yeah. State laws are being broken here. Someomne needs to be held accountable.


9 posted on 11/13/2018 4:54:52 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Democrats Lording it over the people with vote fraud erodes the confidence in elections


10 posted on 11/13/2018 4:55:44 AM PST by MulberryDraw (Dah Dah Dit Dah)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“UN-substantiated”????????????

Let’s stop right there.


11 posted on 11/13/2018 4:55:51 AM PST by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Just got to love unbiased reporting which, of course, given the source, this is not!

Note this first sentence, "After Republicans, including President Donald Trump, made unsubstantiated accusations of illegal activity, ..." If they were substantiated, then that means that they were already legally proven and that leads to corrections and punishment. However this is why we call it 'fake news' because the bias is well mixed into the facts.

Remember the old aphorism about a bowl of pure honey and adding excrement to it, no amount of cleaning will remove the taint. Of course the same applies to mixing provisional votes into good votes, how do you remove that taint? Now consider the Democrat MANTRA of "Count Every Vote!" More excrement anybody?

12 posted on 11/13/2018 4:57:30 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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IIRC Snipes refused to allow legit observers in while they were handling ballots. That ended the integrity of every ballot in the county. It was an illegal act. Trump is 100% correct.


13 posted on 11/13/2018 5:17:57 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The thing that concerns me is where is Congressman Gaetz? The last we heard he was arrested by Sherrif Israel. He was videoing them transferring boxes of ballots from POVs to that rental truck. Yes, when Law Enforcement prevents you from doing something that is entirely legal THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF BEING PLACED UNDER ARREST. Where is he?


14 posted on 11/13/2018 5:21:58 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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“Aww shucks, ... that was just Verdeel’s son, Deshawn, driving votes in.”
“Everybody know him,” “What’s your problem?”

Other Illegal Activity Substantiated:

1. Including & counting declared ‘illegal votes.’

2. Co-mingling ‘illegal votes’ with legal votes.

3. Allowing absentee voters to vote again election day = double vote.

4. Accepting altered bad signatures on Early Votes.

5. Rewriting ballots without assigned observers.


15 posted on 11/13/2018 5:25:56 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: wastoute

He may have returned back to the Panhandle or Talle. He tweeted yesterday.

They did not arrest him. they refused to allow him to video the movement of boxes in/out of the SOE office.


16 posted on 11/13/2018 5:29:20 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Like I said, preventing a person from continuing in their legal behavior IS arrest. By definition.


17 posted on 11/13/2018 5:37:22 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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18 posted on 11/13/2018 5:56:27 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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What’s really evident in Florida ....similar to what happened in Georgia.......dumb-a** Dems were caught flat-footed.

After all, Oprah campaigned for “Aunt Jemima”.....and Obama came in for Gillum/Nelson.

That meant a sure win, didnt it (smirk)?

Stupid Dems were unprepared for the high vote counts Republicans got.

Dems didnt have enough fake and forged ballots stashed away to overcome the actual voting.

Florida is still living the glory days of close-call Gore.

When a shady character like Gillum, whines about “counting every vote”....you know dam well he’s got a stash of forged fraudulent votes planted somewhere.

Just enough to put him over the top.


19 posted on 11/13/2018 5:58:32 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SES1066

Read the article in its entirety.. I butchered it and edited most the garbage out to bring it down to a 300 word excerpt.


20 posted on 11/13/2018 6:07:50 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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