Posted on 11/13/2018 9:24:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Florida county officials are expected to submit their final vote tallies by 3 p.m. Thursday, so we can finally declare winners in both the Senate and gubernatorial races. State law requires that races with less than a .05 percent margin get a recount. Republicans, however, who are currently in the lead in both races, see no need for the recounts.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott accused Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes and Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher of “trying to steal the election.” There's certainly reason to believe Snipes is operating under an ideological motive. Her office unlawfully destroyed ballots in the 2016 Democratic primary election with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Scott is one of many Floridians to demand Snipes be removed from office.
Broward Circuit Judge Tuter is well aware of the stakes of these elections, but he ordered both sides to be careful what they say about their opponents because the country is watching.
“We need to be careful what we say — these words mean things these days,” Tuter said. “Ramp down the rhetoric, if someone in this lawsuit or someone in this county has evidence of voter fraud or irregularities at the supervisor’s office, they should report it to a local law enforcement officer.”
Of course, Trump has only begun to ramp up the rhetoric on his Twitter.
The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2018
POTUS is talking about the thousands of votes that were discovered last week. "More than 80,000 votes were spoken into existence," Republicans angrily charged.
Tuter did not grant all of Gov. Scott's requests, which included impounding voting machines that were not being used, but he did concede to add three Broward Sheriff's deputies to oversee the recount.
As of Monday afternoon, Broward County had still not started counting.
Yes. By all means report Broward County election fraud to Sheriff Israel.
‘Cause that will sure get his attention.
I tried writing the above with a straight face. Could not do it.
You mean the same Broward Sheriff office that had deputies blocking legal observers? I already feel so much better.
It is not ‘ramped up rhetoric’ to show the truth of voter fraud.
“Yes. By all means report Broward County election fraud to Sheriff Israel.”
Yes, he’s a real stand-down guy.
BFF’s with BJ’s wife, too.
Or what?
So the judge condemns the “Rhetoric” but not the blatant fraud and misconduct itself?
I have no problem with a recount, they can recount it 2000 times for all I care, during a recount you should see either no difference or small difference between the columns, small as is less then a dozen.
However I have problem with ballots turning up in schools storage rooms or rental car trunks, once chain of custody is broken, those ballots should be considered spoiled and tossed.
Illegal alien ballots, ballots cast by people not registered or registered in two places and voted in both, should be tossed as well.
Once we apply common sense and existing law, the recounts are no big deal
order ?
A judge “ordered” we don’t have freedom of speech?
I think what he means is: "Republicans should shut up."
The local law enforcement officials found ballots left in a rental call and then called it a bomb threat to avoid the media finding it, so...
Broward is doing it AGAIN!! Buried at the bottom of the article is that Broward has not started their re-count yet. They are holding back so that they can figure out how many votes they need.
Some schmuck county judge thinks he can muzzle DJT. LOL!!!
There is no correction for the Democrats when they cheat.
They will continue to cheat until they receive some correction.
And the Press isn’t going to do it because they are in on the cheating.
Prior restraint on the First Amendment?
I think what he means is: “Republicans should shut up.”
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Exactly. Just like “toning it down” and “reaching across the aisle” is always just code for Republicans should shut up and do whatever the left wants.
As of Monday afternoon, Broward County had still not started counting.
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They’re waiting for the other county vote totals to see how many more ballots need to be “discovered”.
FU, judge!
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