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originally posted by: xuenchen
Back up for a FoxNews segment earlier .........
The lawyers for #BrendaSnipes will not allow comply with court order. That very same order, ruled that Snipes violated the Florida Constitution by not allowing access to these important records. I suspect the night will lead into drafting a motion for contempt...
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originally posted by: sligtlyskeptical
The joke is actually on you. You are not their favored citizen either. Just a tool to keep them in power.
originally posted by: RadioRobert
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: DBCowboy
What is the end-game here?
Less one Republican Senator from Florida.
Less one Republican from Arizona.
No gains in the Senate.
No repeal of Obamacare.
Romney takes McCains place, Murkowski votes no.
Collins wavers....
Stalemate.
Impeach.
This.
originally posted by: proximo
originally posted by: RadioRobert
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: DBCowboy
What is the end-game here?
Less one Republican Senator from Florida.
Less one Republican from Arizona.
No gains in the Senate.
No repeal of Obamacare.
Romney takes McCains place, Murkowski votes no.
Collins wavers....
Stalemate.
Impeach.
This.
Actually I think it is more about the govenor of florida. They want to make sure Trump can't win that state in 2020.
so yeah they have their marching orders
The last time this batch of governor and state legislature seats went up before a redistricting, in 2010, Republicans dominated them. And they used those wins to draw House of Representatives maps in key states that gave the GOP a built-in advantage — which has helped them hold onto control of the chamber ever since. Democrats are optimistic they’ll make progress in state legislatures on Tuesday, but they doubt they’ll reclaim too many key chambers outright. That’s because many state Houses and state Senates are themselves heavily gerrymandered to benefit Republicans. Democrats hope a blue wave will lead to some unexpected wins, but many chambers seem set to remain firmly in the GOP’s hands. That means Democrats’ realistic best-case scenario to get a seat at the table in any GOP-dominated state may be winning just one race: the governorship. (After all, the governor’s race is a statewide contest, meaning Democrats don’t have to deal with gerrymandered borders.) “If Democrats win one statewide race in what looks like it could be a wave year, they can assure themselves at least of veto power” over new maps in 2021, David Daley, an author who’s written a book about gerrymandering, told me this summer.
they wanna redraw as many maps as they can to attempt to stop trump and get as many seats and offices as they can
This year's election could determine whether Republicans maintain their advantage in congressional races through 2031, or if Democrats can tip the scales in their own favor. "Democrats have been in the wilderness the past decade because they fell asleep on redistricting in 2010," said David Daley, a senior fellow at Fair Vote and author of a book about the last redistricting. That means they'll have to start even earlier this time around. "The key elections having influence on that process are almost entirely this year," Daley said. "In many ways, it’s going to be over after Election Day 2018." Enter Eric Holder. The former Obama attorney general heads the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a one-stop shop for Democratic groups to coordinate their strategy. Its mission: Win a more favorable playing field for Democrats by ensuring a complete count in the 2020 Census, removing barriers to voting, supporting ballot initiatives for redistricting reform, electing Democrats and challenging Republican-drawn districts in court. He sees all of these as related issues: "You see the greatest amount of voter suppression where you have the most gerrymandered states." There's no comparable group on the Republican side. The National Republican Redistricting Trust is focused more narrowly on giving state Republican parties technical and legal support.
originally posted by: RalagaNarHallas
a reply to: proximo
they want the gerrymand the ever loving hell out of florida all of this is about getting swing state governors to stop trump
originally posted by: proximo
Actually I think it is more about the govenor of florida. They want to make sure Trump can't win that state in 2020.
This looks like a repeat of the actions in Florida in the 2000 presidential election, when Democratic officials ignored state election laws – and were slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision.
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Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda C. Snipes said Tuesday night that 634,000 votes had been cast in the county. But by Thursday night, Snipes was claiming 712,840 ballots had been cast.
The effect of these newly discovered votes that inexplicably appeared long after they should have been counted shrunk the leads of Republicans Gov. Rick Scott in the Senate race and former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis in the gubernatorial contest.
Late Tuesday night Scott was up roughly 57,000 votes in his race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. By Friday afternoon, Scott’s lead had declined dramatically to about 15,000 votes.
Late Tuesday night DeSantis led Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in the gubernatorial race by 75,000 votes. But Friday afternoon DeSantis was ahead by less than half that – about 36,000 votes.
Broward County officials blatantly disregarded the Florida law requiring that all vote-by-mail and absentee ballots be accounted for within 30 minutes of the polls closing.
Though the county’s voting locations closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Snipes said Friday that she still didn’t know how many ballots remain to be processed. Nor could she say how many provisional, military or mismarked ballots she had in her possession.
Mysteriously, over 70,000 ballots have been counted since Tuesday night with apparently no one knowing how many more are still to come.
In addition, at least one ballot box for provisional votes was left unattended at a polling place – a school where it was discovered days after the election. The box was locked but not sealed, and could have been tampered with or stuffed. Could there be others?
Snipes then refused to allow Republican officials to inspect all ballots before they are submitted to the Canvassing Board. And she refused other requests for public records that should be available under Florida’s expansive “sunshine laws,” drawing a sharp rebuke from a judge late Friday afternoon.
In response to Republican lawsuits, Florida state Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips ruled Friday that “there has been a violation of the Florida constitution” and the state’s public records act by Broward County officials. The judge sided with Scott and ordered that Republicans should be granted “immediate access” to information they have requested about ballots Broward County.
There are also problems in next-door Palm Beach County.
On Wednesday morning, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher stopped filing updates of the vote count with the Florida Department of State as required by law. The law mandates that she report every 45 minutes until all the election results are in.
Instead, Bucher dropped news of the 15,000 surprise ballots she’s counted since Tuesday night at any time she chose.
Besides telling the state to get lost, Bucher is also refusing to allow designated official political party representatives into the ballot counting area. She’s kept them isolated behind a glass wall where they can’t see and hear all that’s going on – yet another violation of Florida election law.
Even more troubling, Bucher has copied vote-by-mail ballots that she claims are damaged, but without allowing witnesses to observe the process as required by Florida law. In fact, she explicitly denied requests for witnesses to see her staff at work.
As election supervisor, Bucher also assumed the power to determine what constitutes a “valid vote.” Under Florida law, she doesn’t have that authority. She can only refer questionable ballots to the county’s bipartisan Canvassing Board.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: The GUT
Well Scott is still Governor and the judge ruled Snipes was in violation of the freaking Florida constitution, can't count on deep state pawn Sheriff Israel to uphold the law---then call in the damn national guard now!
Isn't that the same sheriff who wants gun bans?
originally posted by: xuenchen
Back up for a FoxNews segment earlier .........
The lawyers for #BrendaSnipes will not allow comply with court order. That very same order, ruled that Snipes violated the Florida Constitution by not allowing access to these important records. I suspect the night will lead into drafting a motion for contempt...
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