Election Officials Accused of Intentionally Missing Recount Deadline to Aid Democrats
GOP Senate candidate Rick Scott and a host of others are accusing a pair of Florida counties of intentionally missing a recount deadline, a move that actually helped Democrats avoid losing more votes.
In what has been described as a “stunning development,” election officials in Broward County submitted their recount results two minutes after the deadline, meaning the state will not use those numbers.
All recount efforts in Broward this past week have thus been invalidated.
Scott had gained votes in the county by virtue of his opponent, incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, losing more.
By submitting the results past deadline, numbers from Tuesday’s election will stand until manual recounts can be done. Because of this, Scott actually lost the 779 votes he would have gained in this recount.
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Scott accuses Broward of election fraud
Scott’s campaign accused embattled Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes of intentionally submitting late results to invalidate them.
Snipes responded, not with a denial, but an excuse.
“An election like the one we just finished almost always has so many moving parts and so many components,” she said.
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said he could see why Scott is “understandably frustrated.”
Fox News reporter Ed Henry said, “Congressman, as you know we’ve been lectured for days that we have to “count all the votes,” now we count the votes and it looks like it’s not helping the Democrats so the paperwork’s not turned in.”
“It really shows the hypocrisy,” Gaetz responded.
It’d be difficult to understand how some officials in Florida, with election fraud being this obvious, do not end up being charged with crimes.
We have an Obama-appointed judge extending the deadline for voters to fix discrepancies regarding the signatures on their vote-by-mail ballots.
We have Democrats caught in a scheme using altered forms to allow absentee ballots with ineligible signatures to be “perfected” after the deadline for submission had passed.
And now we have counties refusing to submit recount results once they realize their numbers aren’t going in favor of the Democrat candidates.