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Friday, November 09, 2018

Total Recount!

Just went you thought it was over. Here comes another scandal out of Florida. The Democrats are calling out Republicans for not counting all the votes in counties that likely voted for Andrew Gillum.
There is going to be a recount in the Florida governor and U.S. senate race.

Andrew Gillum and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) are protesting the election results and are saying that Republicans are deliberately trying to hide votes. The Republican governor/possible senate-elect Rick Scott and possible governor-elect Ron DeSantis are calling the recount a stunt.

But there's votes missing in three Democratic leaning counties and the Democrats are demanding all votes are counted.

Now Donald J. Trump and Republicans are calling it "voter fraud" and a "stolen election."

Stroking kookspiracy yet again.

Scott opened an investigation into matter. He did it through his senate campaign and not his state office. The Tampa Bay Times are calling Scott on that.

The Tampa Bay Times reported that according to a spokesperson from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Scott has not submitted a written request that would trigger such an investigation.

"We do not have an active investigation," FDLE spokesperson Gretl Plessinger told the newspaper.

On Thursday night, the governor accused Democrats in South Florida of trying to "steal" the election that will determine if he or incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (R-FL) will head to the Senate next fall.

"No ragtime group of liberal activists or lawyers from DC will be allowed to steal this election from the voters in this great state," Scott said while announcing his voter fraud lawsuit against Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes.
Bring it home.
The election-stealing allegations were first publicized by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) who earlier on Thursday claimed the county should have already tallied up all its absentee ballots.

The junior senator said "liberal DC lawyers" were coming down to watch the ballot-counting in Broward — a sign, he suggested, that the county was attempting to commit voter fraud. In reality, lawyers who witness vote-counting measures usually do so to make sure poll workers are not throwing out or otherwise manipulating ballots.

Rubio also claimed Florida law requires counties to report all their ballots within 30 minutes after the polls close, but as a reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper noted, counties actually have up to four days after polls close to report unofficial returns.

There are voting being counted and of course, it shrinks the leads of Scott and DeSantis.

On Thursday afternoon shortly after 2, the unofficial count gave Republican nominee Ron DeSantis a 38,000-vote lead on Democrat Andrew Gillum. That appeared to be within the 0.5 percent margin that requires an automatic machine recount once the count is certified.

More than 8 million votes were cast in the contest to replace the term-limited Rick  Scott.
It ain't over. Ron Gillum took back his concession. He vows to fight this all the way to court. Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott are scared. Their vote lead shrunk and it's possible that Gillum and Bill Nelson could win the recount.
DeSantis, embracing the mantle of governor-elect, expressed confidence that his lead will hold.

Gillum congratulated DeSantis Tuesday night on a hard-fought victory, but like Al Gore supporters 18 years ago, many of those who voted for him wondered why he conceded so early. Wednesday morning on social media they chatted among themselves about the narrow margin and the many uncounted ballots.

Thursday Gillum's spokeswoman said the campaign had acted with the best information available election night about the number of uncounted ballots.

"Since that time, it has become clear there are many more uncounted ballots than was originally reported," said Johanna Cervone. "Mayor Gillum started his campaign for the people and we are committed to ensuring every single vote in Florida is counted."

Late Thursday afternoon Broward County still had not reported early voting or vote-by-mail numbers. Election officials in the Democratic stronghold expect their first unofficial results by 1pm Friday. So far, only a dozen or so counties had reported the results of provisional ballots.

In posts on Twitter and Facebook Wednesday night and Thursday, Gillum spoke of "seeing every vote counted," how his grandmother taught him to "keep myself in the fight” and vowed to see the process through."

The votes aren't stolen.

Recounts are part of the process. Why are Republicans upset that the contender wants a recount?

Is there something to hide?

Speak of that. Have you heard anything about the migrant caravan that Republicans hyped up the last two weeks before the Midterms?

The Republicans are the party of phony outrage. Democrats should fight this. No vote should be ignored and the gutter sniping from Republicans will put lives in danger.







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