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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Leftists pushing “vote by phone” scheme to rig all future elections and allow illegals more say than Americans

If the Democrat Left is pushing a new way for people to cast their ballots, you can be sure of one thing: It’s because they believe they can game the system and use it to pad their ballot counts on election day.

To cheat, in other words — because that’s the only way their party can win many, if not most, elections these days.

As reported by Breitbart Tech, some investors in Silicon Valley have already convinced a few election officials to start using “vote by phone” technology, hoping that it will not simply catch on around the country but become the new voting standard.

However, as you can imagine, there are lots of people concerned about voter fraud, as well as technology snafus and other means of disrupting (and stealing) ballots. They include cybersecurity, coding, and cryptology experts.

Breitbart Tech noted further:
Venture capitalists of the tech world are currently pushing for the implementation of a new vote-by-phone concept, but while the Silicon Valley investors are wooing election officials, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine are warning specifically against trusting apps and cellphones to manage the voting process…

“There are so many things that could go wrong — it is an odd time for this to be gaining momentum,” Marian Schneider, president of Verified Voting, a group of computer scientists and advocates for government openness who are pushing for more secure elections, told The Los Angeles Times.

“It is an odd time for this to be gaining momentum.”

That’s true. Reports of voter fraud were rampant following the Democratic takeover of the House in November. As Politico reported, Democrats in Florida were accused of ‘finding’ thousands of ballots in some districts as they worked to reverse victories by now-Gov. Ron DeSantis and now-U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, both Republicans who won in early balloting.

Also, Democrats in California managed to unseat several Republicans in GOP-leaning districts though thanks to a new state law that allowed “ballot harvesting” — “political jargon for a practice in which organized workers or volunteers collect absentee ballots from...

Sunday, November 18, 2018

It’s over: Bill Nelson concedes to Rick Scott after Florida recount deadline passes


Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson conceded Florida’s race for U.S. Senate on Sunday, signaling the end of an 18-year run in Congress’ upper chamber and likely the close of a 46-year political career.

According to Gov. Rick Scott, who defeated Nelson in a race so close it required a manual recount, Nelson called to concede after the state posted official results in the race after 1 p.m. Nelson’s campaign says the outgoing senator will release a video statement at 3 p.m.

“I just spoke with Senator Bill Nelson, who graciously conceded, and I thanked him for his years of public service,” Scott said. in a statement sent by his campaign shortly after 2 p.m. “This victory would not be possible without the hard work of so many people. Now the campaign truly is behind us, and that’s where we need to leave it.”

Scott ultimately beat Nelson by 10,033 votes — or about 0.12 percent of the nearly 8.2 million votes cast in the race. The margin was so thin it triggered a mandatory machine recount on Nov. 10 and then an automatic manual recount Thursday.

Scott’s win gives Republicans a stronger majority in the U.S. Senate. The race was the most expensive senate contest in Florida history.

Nelson, 76, was first elected to office in a state House district in Melbourne, near Cape Canaveral, in 1972. He went to space as a congressman in 1986 and served several stints as Florida’s elected insurance commissioner. He won his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 and was....

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Jeffrey Toobin rips ’98lb weakling Jeff Flake’ over anti-Trump stunt: ‘McConnell will squash him like a bug’

Senator Jeff Flake is apparently not impressing anyone with his threat to oppose President Trump’s judicial nominees until the Senate takes up legislation to protect Robert Mueller.

The outgoing Arizona Republican was blocked by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from bringing the legislation before the Senate for a vote, The Hill reported.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin slammed the “98-pound weakling named Jeff Flake” who is all talk and little else, telling a CNN panel Wednesday that the retiring senator’s threats are without merit.
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“Is there anything more empty in American politics than a threat from Jeff Flake, who has made his entire career by folding every time Mitch McConnell breathes hard?” Toobin asked on “The Situation Room.”

I have informed the Majority Leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting action on the floor, until the Mueller protection bill is brought to the full Senate for a vote.

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“Mitch McConnell is going to squash Jeff Flake like a bug, as he always does. And the idea that Jeff Flake is going to hold up anything to protect Robert Mueller is, in my opinion, absurd,” Toobin continued.

“Mitch McConnell has said we don’t need a law to protect Robert Mueller, and that means there’s not going to be a law to protect Robert Mueller. I mean, Mitch McConnell is in charge,” he added. “Jeff Flake is wandering off into the darkness these last few days as a senator. I mean, this is not a fair fight. Mitch McConnell and a 98-pound weakling named Jeff Flake is just not––you know, that is not going to happen.”

Toobin noted that this will mean the administration will “have a free hand to do with Mueller what they will. And we’ll see what happens.”

McConnell was re-elected as Senate majority leader on Wednesday, with a vote included from Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott who posed in a photo with McConnell and other incoming Republicans senators despite the recount going...

6 Big Election Hits by Marc Elias, Democrats’ Recount King

Marc Elias has a history of turning Democrats who lost on election night into winners after recounts.

The lawyer representing Sen. Bill Nelson in the recount of Florida’s contest for Senate has been at the center of nearly every major election controversy for the past decade.

BREAKING: In Florida we have sued in federal court to ensure that every county has a chance to complete the machine and manual recount without facing an unreasonable and arbitrary deadline.
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Elias is chairman of Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, which was behind the opposition research document that fueled the Trump-Russia investigation. Before that, he was highly instrumental in getting Al Franken into the U.S. Senate.

Nelson, the incumbent Democrat, trails by less than half a percentage point behind Gov. Rick Scott, his Republican challenger. That’s close enough to trigger a recount in Florida, but the deficit of over 10,000 votes is more than than any previous recount has overcome.

Nevertheless, Elias has predicted victory, and he has a winning record at his back in high-profile races.

“I have a pretty good track record on that prediction elsewhere,” Elias told reporters on a conference call last week.

The results of the governor’s race to succeed Scott as Florida governor also qualified for a recount.

Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., leads Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a Democrat, by more than 30,000 votes statewide, though, so the DeSantis win is less likely to be overturned.

Elias, who isn’t involved in the DeSantis-Gillum contest, didn’t respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment for this report.

Both The Washington Post and CQ Roll Call referred to Elias as the “go-to” lawyer for Democrats. In addition to representing the presidential campaigns of Democrats Hillary Clinton in 2016 and John Kerry in 2004, Elias has represented the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

He also did work for the fundraising organizations Priorities USA, Senate Majority PAC, House Majority PAC, and the pro-choice EMILY’s List.

Here’s a look at high-profile political controversies where Elias played a central role:

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Here’s a quick guide to the key lawsuits filed so far regarding the Florida 2018 recounts

Broward election planning director Joseph D’Alessandro, right, works on recounting votes from the midterm elections
 on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, at the Broward Supervisor of Elections Office in Lauderhill, Florida. Christian Colon
Since a statewide recount was ordered last week for three major races in Florida, lawsuits have been filed all over the state. The statewide races being recounted: Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson for Nelson’s Senate seat; Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum for governor, and Democrat Nikki Fried and Republican Matt Caldwell for state agriculture commissioner. Here’s a look at some of the key lawsuits filed so far.

Republican Rick Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Committee vs. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes

On Thursday, Gov. Scott held a press conference in the governor’s mansion and accused “unethical liberals” of trying to steal the race for U.S. Senate from him. His campaign filed a lawsuitThursday alleging Snipes refused to release details on voting tabulations.
Scott’s campaign claimed Snipes violated public records laws by not complying with its requests for voter and ballot information, according to the suit in Broward Circuit Court.
Status: An emergency court hearing was held Friday. Broward Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips ordered Snipes to release the number of ballots cast in the county, broken down by absentee, early and Election Day votes, to Scott’s campaign by 7 p.m. Friday. Snipes complied.

Republican Rick Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Committee vs. Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher

Scott’s campaign on Thursday sued Bucher, claiming she hindered the processing of provisional and absentee ballots. Bucher, according to the suit, refused to allow party representatives “to properly witness Defendant’s processing and duplication of physically damaged absentee ballots,” in violation of state law.

Bucher’s staff also failed to allow the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board to inspect the ballots, violating state law, the suit said.. Her staff determined if the mail-in ballots were valid themselves, according to the suit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

Status: An emergency court hearing was held Friday. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Krista Marx declared any ballot that Bucher or her staff disqualifies will need to be reviewed by the county’s canvassing board. Marx also ordered Bucher to provide a list of everyone who filed provisional ballots by 4 p.m. Friday. Bucher has yet to comply with the judge’s order.

Democrat Bill Nelson and Democratic Executive Committee vs. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner

Nelson’s campaign asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Thursday for an immediate injunction to force the state to count all mail-in and provisional ballots that are deemed to have a signature mismatch.

The lawsuit wants a judge to declare “that all voters who submit a (vote-by-mail) or provisional ballot, and whose ballots are subsequently determined to involve a signature mismatch, be counted as valid votes.” That would challenge Florida law, which requires officials to reject signatures that don’t match the ones on file.

The plaintiffs also requested Saturday’s deadline to canvass ballots be extended until the legal matter is resolved.

Status: Judge Mark Walker is overseeing the case. A hearing is scheduled in Tallahassee for Wednesday afternoon.

Republican Rick Scott vs. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes and the Broward County Canvassing Board

Scott is suing the defendants to prevent the counting of absentee ballots received after the 7 p.m. deadline on Election Day and that none of those votes should be included in Broward County’s tally.

Status: The case was filed in Broward County. No hearing has been scheduled.

Republican Rick Scott vs. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes

As elections departments across the state started the recount Sunday, Scott filed for an emergency injunction to allow the sheriff’s deputies and Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement to impound Broward County vote-tabulation machines and ballots while the recount is not under way.

The Broward recount is already secured by police outside and deputies inside, with Democratic and Republican parties and candidates’ campaigns monitoring the entire process. But Scott’s campaign asserted that Snipes’s history of violating state law called into question the integrity of the cote-counting process.

Status: Circuit Judge Jack Tuter denied Scott’s request to impound the machines. Instead, all parties agreed to add three Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies to an existing group of deputies, local police officers and private security guards to oversee the recount of the three races at the Broward election supervisor’s office in Lauderhill.
The judge asked the lawyers on all sides to “ramp down the rhetoric” as he’s seen no evidence of wrongdoing in the vote counting.

Republican Rick Scott vs. Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher

As elections departments across the state started the recount Sunday, Scott filed for an emergency injunction to allow the sheriff’s deputies and Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement to impound Palm Beach County vote-tabulation machines and ballots while the recount is not underway.

Status: One of the Scott campaign’s attorneys, Jason Zimmerman, said that the Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections agreed to add additional law enforcement officers to oversee recount activities.

League of Women Voters, Common Cause and Joanne Lynch Aye vs. Republican Rick Scott

On Monday, the group Protect Democracy sued in federal on behalf of the League of Women Voters, Common Cause and Joanne Lynch Aye, a Broward voter. The group claims Scott is improperly using his position as governor to influence the recount in the U.S. Senate race in which he is a candidate.

The lawsuit followed a letter sent by the plaintiffs over the weekend asking Scott to recuse himself.

Scott, according to the federal lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Florida, is using the powers of his office “to benefit himself and his party and to intimidate the local officials and volunteers conducting the vote count.”

The plaintiffs asked a judge to file a restraining order against Scott, to prohibit him from using his authority in any way to influence the 2018 Senate race.

Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle disqualified himself from the case early Saturday. Chief Judge Mark Walker took over.

Status: A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday morning before Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee.

VoteVets Action Fund and the Democratic National Committee vs. State of Florida

VoteVets Action Fund, a progressive veterans’ advocacy group, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee filed a federal suit against the state in the Northern District of Florida on Monday.

Plaintiffs ask that mail-in ballots that were postmarked before Election Day, but not delivered before the polls closed at 7 p.m., be counted. Mail-in ballots cannot be counted if they arrive after 7 p.m. on Election Day, according to Florida law.

The lawsuit is claiming voters should not be faulted for the late delivery of absentee ballots. Nelson’s attorney, Marc Elias, cited the example of a few hundred mail-in ballots that were postmarked before Nov. 6 but got stranded at an Opa-locka postal facility, possibly because of an FBI investigation into a Miami-Dade man who sent pipe bombs through the mail before the election.

Elias said Nelson’s campaign hopes to get post-marked absentees to be counted within 10 days after the election, similarly to overseas military members’ ballots.

Status: Pending before U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee.

Democrat Jim Bonfiglio vs. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner

Bonfiglio, who was trailing by 37 votes against Republican Mike Caruso for House District 89, filed a suit Tuesday in Leon County Circuit Court seeking to extend the deadline for the machine recount from 3 p.m. Thursday to next Tuesday, Nov. 20.

Nelson’s campaign filed a motion later that day to join Bonfiglio’s lawsuit.

Status: Circuit Judge Karen Gievers suspended certain deadlines for the recount in Palm Beach County not only for Bonfiglio’s statehouse race, but also for three statewide races, including Nelson’s.
Detzner is trying to move the case to federal court in the Northern District of Florida in Tallahassee.

Democrat Bill Nelson for U.S. Senate vs. Ken Detzner et al.

Nelson’s campaign is seeking to have a federal judge in the Northern District of Florida extend the deadlines for machine and manual recounts so that all 67 counties in the state can finish them on time.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, urges U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee to extend the deadlines for an unspecified period of time. Under state law, the machine recounts must be completed by 3 p.m. Thursday and the manual recounts must be completed by noon Sunday.

Status: Walker scheduled a status conference on the suit for 9 a.m. Thursday.

Republican Matthew Caldwell vs. Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes

The Republican candidate for commissioner of agriculture and consumer services filed a suit Friday in Broward County against Snipes, to determine if Snipes “illegally included ballots after polls closed” Nov. 6. If so, Caldwell is asking the state to be remove potentially illegal votes from the electoral tabulation.

His campaign also filed a public-records request for vote counts and emails among Snipes, her team and third-party members regarding the midterm recount.

Status: A hearing hasn’t been scheduled yet.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Supervisor of Florida Elections, Brenda Snipes to be 'Forced From Office' for Violating Florida Law

Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is expected to be "forced from office" after a judge found her guilty of violating Florida law. Following further reports of highly suspicious actions by her office, either Governor Rick Scott or governor-elect Ron DeSantis is anticipated to soon strip her from her role, Politico reports.

Snipes is accused of intentionally destroying ballots along with allowing felons and non-citizens to vote in elections.

"Counting unlawful votes. Destroying ballots. Sunshine Law violations. Busted deadlines," Politico's Marc Caputo writes. "

So many controversies have bedeviled Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes — culminating in her office’s troubles in the aftermath of Florida’s chaotic 2018 elections — that her days in office are now numbered, insiders and lawmakers say." Protestors react to news of further election sabotage by Brenda Snipes.

According to Daily Wire, even Snipes' fellow Democrats have begun to abandon her amid her increasingly indefensible mishandling of the count, which has already resulted in a judge finding her in violation of Florida election law, Snipes' office accidentally mixing invalidated ballots into legitimate results, and a suspicious series of reports of "found" ballots and illegally transported ballots.

The situation is adding up to "the increasing likelihood of an embarrassing suspension from office at the hands of either Gov. Rick Scott or his likely successor...

BREAKING: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION Now Underway In Corrupt Broward and Palm Beach Counties After Tens of Thousands of Votes Appear (Video)

FOX News host Sean Hannity announced on Monday night a criminal investigation is now underway in corrupt Broward and Palm Beach counties in Florida.

On election night last Tuesday Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis easily won their races in Florida.
Now Democrats are working to steal the elections.

Then Democrats in Palm Beach and Broward counties started manufacturing tens of thousands of new votes for several days.

On Tuesday Broward County Elections supervisor Brenda Snipes reported 634,000 votes were cast in the midterm election in her county.

On Friday morning Broward County Elections officials said 717,000 votes were cast in the midterm election.
Broward County Democrats have mysteriously found 83,000 votes in two days!

ALL Florida counties met the latest deadline on Saturday at noon to turn over their election totals.

Governor Rick Scott leads Sen. Nelson by 12,562 votes after three days of of Broward and Palm Beach County ballot manufacturing operations.
This is down from his 80,000 vote lead on election night.

Massive voter fraud is being witnessed by observers in both Palm Beach County and Broward County.

Sean Hannity announced on Monday there are now criminal investigations in...

Monday, November 12, 2018

Why Democratic Dishonesty Is a Bigger Threat to Freedom Than ‘Some Unproven Russian Conspiracy’

Watch the Democrats try to steal elections, and think about how Democratic dishonesty is a much greater threat to freedom than some unproven Russian conspiracy.

As you watch the long, long, long counts in Florida, Arizona and California, remember the long count that stole Republican Sen. Norm Coleman’s Senate seat for Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota back in 2008.

Remember Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia Stacey Abrams’s assertion that her “blue wave” was made up of both legal and illegal residents. Remember that 22,000 of the applications her voter registration group filed in Georgia were either canceled, duplicative or couldn’t be reconciled (probably because the voters did not exist).

The Democratic supervisor of elections for Broward County, Florida, Brenda Snipes (shown above right), has a consistent record of breaking the law and trying to steal elections.

When you have the state’s sitting governor and Republican Senate candidate, Rick Scott, filing a lawsuit against “rampant fraud” and saying, “I will not stand idly by while unethical liberals try to steal an election,” you know things have gotten very serious.

As Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has said, “What’s happening in Broward County should concern every American.”

In Arizona, you can bet that many of the 400,000 mail-in ballots still outstanding will turn out to be non-existent or cast by illegal immigrants — or simply made-up by the election officials in two of the state’s most liberal counties.

Already, the Arizona Republican Party has alleged that left-wing election officials in one county destroyed evidence related to early voting irregularities.

The fact is that after all of their feigned worries about Russia influencing the election, Democrats will end up stealing a lot more votes than Vladimir Putin ever dreamed of taking.

Watch the next few days unfold.

Remember the lies, smears and character assassination Democrats threw at Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

And worry for the very fabric of our country.

Check out this video:

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Florida. Governor Rick Scott: Democrats trying to use voter fraud to steal election


Friday, November 9, 2018

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Lawyer Tied to Clinton Campaign, McCain & Crooked Fusion GPS’ Bogus Trump Dossier NOW Leads Democrat’s Florida VOTE Recount Efforts

Marc Elias, the attorney who infamously retained Fusion GPS to produce the largely discredited anti-Trump dossier on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, has been retained to represent Sen. Bill Nelson’s recount efforts in Florida.

The Florida Senate race is likely headed to a recount after late reporting from Broward County lowered Gov. Rick Scott’s lead to about 17,000 votes, meaning the election is within the .25% margin necessary to require a hand recount. The race has already reached the 0.5 percent threshold to require a machine recount.

In a conference call with reporters, Elias claimed that optical-scan machines may not have registered ballots that were poorly marked, and he contended that Nelson would emerge victorious from a recount, which has not yet been officially authorized.

“We believe that at the end of this process, Sen. Nelson is going to be declared the winner,” Elias said.

Elias added: “We’re doing this not just because it’s automatic, but we’re doing it to win. A significant number of ballots have not yet been counted and, because of the size of Florida, we believe the results of the election are unknown and require a recount.”

Elias is widely considered one of the most powerful attorneys associated with the Democratic Party. He is chair of the Political Law Group at the Perkins Coie law firm. Elias represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as well as the...

CHAOS: Broward teacher finds box of ballots; Workers deliver others in personal vehicles to rental truck

As Florida appears to be gearing up for a recount in the state’s U.S. Senate race, video posted by a Congressional candidate is raising questions about election integrity in one Democrat stronghold.
Tim Canova tweeted a video from Joann Knox he says shows Broward County election workers transporting ballots from a black pickup truck and intro an Enterprise rental truck.

In the video, Knox says she asked the workers about the ballots they were carrying, and they said “the truck left them.”

“I’m not sure what the hell is going on here, but I don’t think it’s right,” Knox says.

At one point, Knox zooms in, showing the ballots in a large blue container sitting on the ground.

Moments later, a car pulls up.

“This lady is bringing ballots out of her car!” Knox says. The workers can be seen in orange vests.

Knox says Broward County allows election workers to transport the ballots by themselves.

“Concerned citizen sees ballots being transported in private vehicles & transferred to rented truck on Election night,” Canova tweeted.

“This violates all chain of custody requirements for paper ballots. Were the ballots destroyed & replaced by set of fake ballots?” he asks.

Canova ran as an independent candidate against Debbie Wasserman Schultz.


Unless @FLGovScott steps in and orders law enforcement to Broward County, Brenda Snipes will do all she can to steal this election.

Broward’s Supervisor of Elections office is a corrupt stain on the entire state.

Enough is enough.
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Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes “will do all she can to steal this election,” Newsmax host and local resident John Cardillo tweeted, adding that the video captures vote “fraud”.

Broward County is a historically Democrat county, and a mishandling of ballots could jeopardize a recount.

Initial returns show Bill Nelson winning the county by more than 2-1 over Rick Scott, 466,321 to 208,895.







Something very strange happened in Broward County.
I've never seen a top-of-the-ticket U.S. Senate race get fewer votes than EVERY OTHER statewide election.

So more voters wanted to weigh in on governor AND attorney general AND state CFO AND agriculture commissioner?
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Marc Caputo also tweeted a pictures he says are provisional ballots left behind by election crews.






In Broward County, Miramar Elementary School teacher Lakeisha Sorey came across a box labeled “Provisional ballots” left behind at the school from Election Day & she’s concerned it might have votes. She didn’t look in the box because she didn’t want to tamper with it
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Showing a gray tub marked “Provisional Ballot Box,” Caputo reports, “In Broward County, Miramar Elementary School teacher Lakeisha Sorey came across a box labeled “Provisional ballots” left behind at the school from Election Day & she’s concerned it might have...