John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© November 10, 2018
While the Dems expand their voting base by making illegal
aliens citizens, allowing illegals to vote, counting dead people’s votes as
valid as well as having cartoon characters and pets vote; the Dems are making
an art of stealing elections with the mysterious appearance of ballots that by
law should have already been counted.
Obvious voter fraud scenarios are developing in the States
of Florida, Arizona and Georgia. AND the Dem propaganda machine – err I mean
the Mainstream Media – have been dismissing these voting fraud incidents as GOP
fabrications.
Below are two similar The Federalist articles explaining
the election fraud in Florida and the pro-Dem villains perpetrating it. (I’ll
get to Arizona and Georgia in later posts.)
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Yes, Democrats Are Trying To
Steal The Election In Florida
By Bre
Payton
November 9, 2018
Are Florida’s election officials merely incompetent, or is
there a sinister plot afoot to throw the election results towards Democrats?
Three days after election night, when Gov. Rick Scott
delivered a victory speech and held a comfortable margin of votes against
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, loads of ballots favoring the Democratic candidate
mysteriously turned up in Palm Beach and Broward counties — where one official
has a history of violating election laws.
State law
requires that all early and by-mail votes be tabulated within 30
minutes of the polls closing, but three days later, Broward County Supervisor
of Elections Dr. Brenda Snipes still refuses to specify how many people
voted, how many ballots have been tabulated, and how many are left to count.
Since Tuesday, 80,000
new votes have mysteriously turned up in Broward County and another
15,000 in Palm Beach County. These newly discovered ballots have been “breaking
almost 3-to-1 in favor of Democrats,” narrowing the margin between
these two candidates to likely force a recount after Saturday’s noon deadline
requiring all counties to turn over election results to the state Division of
Elections.
Snipes’s History Of Incompetence and Lawbreaking
Snipes is no stranger to controversy. Her office has broken
the law and repeatedly botched election counting. In 2016 a judge ruled that
her office had violated federal and state laws by destroying ballots too
quickly after a congressional race.
Then-Democratic congressional candidate Tim Canova asked to
see the paper ballots to examine voter irregularities in his failed bid to
unseat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Snipes
ignored his request and destroyed the ballots months later, even
signing a certificate saying there was no ongoing legal challenge involving the
ballots.
Why would she sign such a certificate when she knew there
was a pending legal challenge? Was it to cover something up, or was it because
she simply didn’t care about telling the truth and adhering to the law? Either
answer is equally troubling, as one might hope the person in charge of
overseeing the integrity of elections would be honest and forthcoming, or at a
minimum follow the rules.
In 2003, about 58,000 ballots were reported missing and in
2004, her office was counting votes days after the election took place. In
2006, her office was still counting ballots long after other counties had
submitted their results, due to the possibility that
ballots were still left in the machines.
Local reporters have asked her repeatedly what has been
taking so long to count the votes, and have gotten no clear answers. Jeff
Weisner, an investigative reporter for ABC affiliate Local 10 News, confronted
Snipes on camera about what is taking so long to tabulate vote counts, to which
she explained that other “counties didn’t have 600,000 votes out there.”
“Well, Miami-Dade did,” Weinsier said.
“Well, have you been inside my — never mind, let me go
check. I’ll check,” Snipes said.
Why is she so flippant about flouting Florida’s election
laws? With a U.S. Senate race on the line, one might think this deserves a
somewhat believable explanation. Instead she’s offered flimsy excuses or
nothing.
Republicans Are Rightly Worried Election Integrity Is
Shot
On Thursday night, Scott filed a lawsuit against Broward and
Palm Beach counties for their refusal to be transparent. Following Scott’s
lawsuit, Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed it will launch
investigations into these counties and their respective supervisors, The
Hill reported.
At a court hearing on Friday morning in Palm Beach County,
Judge Krista Marx ordered that “any ballot that the supervisor
of Elections Susan Bucher or her staff throws out will need to
go in front of the canvassing board,” NBC
affiliate WPTV reported. “Marx also ordered Bucher to provide
a list by 4 p.m. of everyone who voted by provisional ballot.”
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has been on a tweet storm
decrying a lack of transparency from Broward County officials.
Early Voting in #BrowardCounty
ended 108 hours ago. Every other county, including neighboring Miami-Dade (which
had 100k more votes cast) was able to canvass, tabulate & report to state by
deadline. But #Broward
still hasn’t finished & won’t disclose how many ballots are left.
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November
9, 2018
The incompetence of & the violation of #Florida
reporting requirements by #BrowardCounty
elections dept could impact more than just the outcome
The last thing our already dangerously
divided nation needs is an important election 1/2 our people believe was rigged
by the other ½
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November
9, 2018
They have good reason to worry, as
the newly discovered ballots have already tipped the scales in favor of
Democrat Nikki Fried over Rep. Matt Caldwell by 2,841 votes
in the Florida agriculture commissioner race.
Snipe’s office broke the law by failing to give a vote count
on time. And the validity of the newly discovered ballots heavily favoring
Democrats should be questioned.
Democrats Confident Broward County Will Tip Them a Win
In
an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, one of Nelson’s attorneys
said he’s confident the untabulated votes that mysteriously keep turning up
without explanation will carry Democrats to victory.
‘We believe at the end of the day,
Sen. Nelson is going to be declared the winner and return to the U.S. Senate,’
said Marc Elias, a recount attorney hired by the Nelson campaign, in a
conference call.
Elias pointed to significant
numbers of ballots not yet tabulated in Broward, where even Snipes said
Wednesday night, ‘I can’t give you an exact number. I’m not sure. I’m really
not sure.’
Already, however, national media outlets are working to
discredit election integrity fears. NPR
ran a story with the following headline: “As Florida Races Narrow,
Trump And Scott Spread Claims Of Fraud Without Evidence.” This was The
Washington Post’s headline: “After Trump and Scott cry ‘fraud,’ critics
pounce on Broward County’s troubled election history.”
Why are Democrats so sure these missing ballots will hold
the key to victory? Why are members of the news media attempting to minimize
legitimate concerns about the validity of the election results?
Democrats frequently poo poo concerns of election integrity,
oppose
voter ID laws, push for former felons to regain the right to vote,
and dismiss reports of illegal immigrants and dead people casting ballots. It’s
no surprise the party whose only concern about ballot integrity comes when the
Constitution gets in the way of electoral victory is nonchalant about what’s
happening in Florida. The murkier the electoral process is, the more the
Democratic Party wins.
Bre Payton is a staff writer at The Federalist. Follow
her on Twitter.
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Broward County Is An
Embarrassment, And The Potential For A Stolen Florida Election Is Real
By Ben Domenech
November 9, 2018
Every day that we do not have a total tabulation of the
ballots, the more Republican voters will with all good reason begin to believe
the election results are being manipulated.
Last night CBS News’ John Dickerson tweeted “The Florida
voting system is the Florida Man of voting systems.” But at least Florida Man
combines stupid fun entertainment with incompetence and hubris, as opposed to
depressing levels of corruption and idiocy.
Comes now Dr. Brenda C. Snipes, the key election official in
Broward County, Florida has presided for the past 72 hours over a level of
bureaucratic incompetence – in the best spin of the situation – or utter
corruption in the worst when it comes to counting the ballots from her county.
Last night Governor and would-be Senator Rick Scott
announced he was filing
a lawsuit against her – not one claiming anything about the ballots
being counted, but simply demanding that she live up to the regulatory
obligation to tell us how many ballots there are. Again, this
is not a lawsuit about counting, just about knowing how many
ballots you have left to count, which is required to be disclosed by law.
This demand to know the facts is being described by some
Democrats as an attempt to prevent votes being counted. That’s how ridiculous
the situation is.
Here’s the situation: Florida law
102.141 4(b) details the process by which ballots shall be counted,
and it requires that within 30 minutes of polls closing, you publish an
estimated count of the ballots in hand, regularly updated afterward. Every
other county in Florida other than Broward has done this. Broward’s Dr. Snipes
has not. Local journalists have shouted questions at her, and the local
officials have demured or said she was too busy or said she was “taking
a break”.
In my humble opinion, “she’s taking a break” is the greatest
bureaucratic
incompetence excuse I have ever heard. The point is that Florida
election officials will apparently tell you what they are required to tell you
at a time of their choosing, not before.
What is infuriating about Florida and Broward is that the
county is required to tell us how many total ballots they have, and they
refuse. There is no legitimate reason justification for that. None.
The media – both local and national – should be raising all
sorts of hell about the absence of this easily tabulated information. Every day
that we do not have a total tabulation of the ballots in this key county, with
the most basic level of transparency, the more Republican voters will with all
good reason begin to believe the election results are being manipulated.
When you have a sitting Senator from the state in Marco
Rubio sounding the alarm over this, in a way that obviously is an
embarrassment to the state, you understand something terrible is happening.
More
here from Brian Burgess on the ground in Florida.
“The newly counted ballots, which
are breaking almost 3-to-1 in favor of Democrats, have triggered a likely hand
recount, a machine recount, a lawsuit, a law enforcement investigation, and
accusations from Republicans that Democrats are literally trying to steal the
election…
“In a secluded room away from the
well-wishers gathered at his victory party in Naples, Florida, Scott’s team did
some basic math and determined the remaining uncounted precincts couldn’t
possibly contain enough Democrat votes for Nelson to overcome the 60,000-vote
deficit. At midnight, Scott claimed victory in a subdued speech, then retired
to bed.
“When Republicans woke the next morning, they were stunned to learn Scott’s lead had shrunk by 22,000 votes, a seemingly impossible mathematical feat. Most of the newly counted ballots came from Broward County, but some were added from Palm Beach County (yes, that one). With Scott’s lead now down to just 38,000 votes, murmurs of a potential recount began to build. By mid-afternoon, more cartons of Democrat-leaning ballots had been added to the statewide total, trimming Scott’s margin over Nelson to around 30,000 votes.
“Even at that point, Republicans didn’t seem overly concerned. After all, 30,000 votes is a lot to overcome, especially when all that remained to be counted were a few handfuls of provisional ballots, overseas military ballots likely favoring Republicans, and some straggling vote-by-mail and early ballots. And while the governor’s race had also tightened, it remained outside the mandatory recount margin.
“That all changed on Thursday morning, when Republicans woke for the second day in a row to learn that overnight, still more Democrat votes had been dumped into the system, cutting Scott’s lead by 8,000 votes, putting it well within the mandatory hand-recount range.
“Reporters, by now curious about why Broward County was still counting ballots when hurricane-ravaged Bay County had their work wrapped up on election night, asked Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes if she knew how many uncounted ballots remained.
“Not sure. I’m really not sure. But we are working on those,” she told CBS 4 News in Miami.
“A few hours later, Snipes posted another 11,300 ballots to the state’s Division of Elections. Those new votes favored Democrats by more than 2-to-1, helping Bill Nelson close the gap even further, but also triggering mandatory recounts in the governor’s race, and flipping the race for agriculture commissioner from Republican to Democrat.”
“When Republicans woke the next morning, they were stunned to learn Scott’s lead had shrunk by 22,000 votes, a seemingly impossible mathematical feat. Most of the newly counted ballots came from Broward County, but some were added from Palm Beach County (yes, that one). With Scott’s lead now down to just 38,000 votes, murmurs of a potential recount began to build. By mid-afternoon, more cartons of Democrat-leaning ballots had been added to the statewide total, trimming Scott’s margin over Nelson to around 30,000 votes.
“Even at that point, Republicans didn’t seem overly concerned. After all, 30,000 votes is a lot to overcome, especially when all that remained to be counted were a few handfuls of provisional ballots, overseas military ballots likely favoring Republicans, and some straggling vote-by-mail and early ballots. And while the governor’s race had also tightened, it remained outside the mandatory recount margin.
“That all changed on Thursday morning, when Republicans woke for the second day in a row to learn that overnight, still more Democrat votes had been dumped into the system, cutting Scott’s lead by 8,000 votes, putting it well within the mandatory hand-recount range.
“Reporters, by now curious about why Broward County was still counting ballots when hurricane-ravaged Bay County had their work wrapped up on election night, asked Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes if she knew how many uncounted ballots remained.
“Not sure. I’m really not sure. But we are working on those,” she told CBS 4 News in Miami.
“A few hours later, Snipes posted another 11,300 ballots to the state’s Division of Elections. Those new votes favored Democrats by more than 2-to-1, helping Bill Nelson close the gap even further, but also triggering mandatory recounts in the governor’s race, and flipping the race for agriculture commissioner from Republican to Democrat.”
What’s worse, according to Scott’s lawsuit and as this
Florida State University professor details, Snipes has denied access to their
campaign to view the actual creation of new ballots – ones that are being
created in replacement of purportedly damaged ballots submitted by voters:
18/ State law *recognizes* that the literal creation of new ballots to be
counted is one of the most sensitive and vulnerable steps in the process.
That's why it requires the creation of replacement ballots must occur "in
the presence of witnesses." Fla. Stat. 101.5614(4)(a)
— michaelmorley11
(@michaelmorley11) November
9, 2018
19/ @FlGovScott
lawsuit provides sworn evidence that the Palm Beach County Supervisor of
Elections prohibited his campaign's reps from monitoring the creation of
replacement ballots. Election officials are filling out new ballots, but the
candidate's reps apparently couldn't see
— michaelmorley11
(@michaelmorley11) November
9, 2018
Snipes is clearly an election official with a number of
dubious past decisions, including many that have put her in the courtroom. Her
emphatic and continued refusal to do what she is legally required to do – tell
us how many ballots there are – is astounding. No matter the party that
benefits or that currently stands in the lead in Florida, her behavior is
unconscionable if voters are to have any faith in this process being
transparent and unimpeachable.
Ben Domenech
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Dem Election Cheating, Lies
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John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© November 10, 2018
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Yes, Democrats Are Trying
To Steal The Election In Florida
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Broward County Is An
Embarrassment, And The Potential For A Stolen Florida Election Is Real
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