Posted on Nov 17, 2018
Nearly 3,000 Votes Disappeared From Florida’s Recount. That’s Not Supposed to Happen
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Nearly 3,000 votes effectively disappeared during the machine recount of Florida’s midterm races, according to election records, calling into question whether officials relied on a flawed process to settle the outcome of three statewide contests.
With extremely narrow gaps separating candidates in the still-undeclared races for both governor and United States Senate, the results of the machine recount of all votes cast in the Nov. 6 election, posted by the Florida secretary of state’s office, showed 900 fewer votes than those reported in the original statewide tally.
The discrepancy was expected to grow by an additional 2,000 votes when updated numbers from Broward County, whose results initially were disqualified because they came in two minutes late, are added to the statewide results on Sunday.
None of the discrepancies would be enough to affect the outcome of the three statewide and three local elections that are still waiting for a winner to be called. But they come as at least three Florida counties — two of them Democratic strongholds whose results could be decisive — have reported problems counting their shares of the more than 8.1 million ballots cast across the state.
With extremely narrow gaps separating candidates in the still-undeclared races for both governor and United States Senate, the results of the machine recount of all votes cast in the Nov. 6 election, posted by the Florida secretary of state’s office, showed 900 fewer votes than those reported in the original statewide tally.
The discrepancy was expected to grow by an additional 2,000 votes when updated numbers from Broward County, whose results initially were disqualified because they came in two minutes late, are added to the statewide results on Sunday.
None of the discrepancies would be enough to affect the outcome of the three statewide and three local elections that are still waiting for a winner to be called. But they come as at least three Florida counties — two of them Democratic strongholds whose results could be decisive — have reported problems counting their shares of the more than 8.1 million ballots cast across the state.
Nearly 3,000 Votes Disappeared From Florida’s Recount. That’s Not Supposed to Happen
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel they definitely need to figure out what the heck is up, what a joke of a process.
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Votes appearing late, votes disappearing during recount? 2 of the counties involved are Dem strongholds? HMMmm?
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PO1 John Johnson
Yep; only the NYT would try to turn this around to make it seem like something was nefarious by not stating that "all 3 of the Counties are Democratic strongholds", albeit Hillsborough County (Tampa) is not a "driving off a cliff" Leftwing compared to the other two super Leftwing Counties of Palm Beach and Broward. Per Election Commissioner Craig Latimer, Hillsborough County's missing 800 votes were traced to a single machine that "hiccupped" during a quick power flash off/on of just a split second during the evening which I can absolutely confirm, and the missing votes were recounted with no change in the outcome compared to the initial count.
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Two headlines today.
"Broward counts the wrong ballots as Florida races to finish manual recount ahead of Sunday deadline" - Miami Herald
Broward election boss says racism may be behind clamor against her - Fox
"Snipes, who has come under heavy criticism over her handling of the Florida recount after the contentious midterm elections earlier this month, told The Guardian that she believes protesters camped outside the Broward recount center could be there out of hatred of her skin color."
Though she declined to elaborate during her brief interview, when asked if race played a factor, she answered: “Probably. Probably.”
Add this to the already growing list of missteps by Broward and Palm Beach election officials. Unbelievable! Maybe Snipes is working with the Russians.
"Broward counts the wrong ballots as Florida races to finish manual recount ahead of Sunday deadline" - Miami Herald
Broward election boss says racism may be behind clamor against her - Fox
"Snipes, who has come under heavy criticism over her handling of the Florida recount after the contentious midterm elections earlier this month, told The Guardian that she believes protesters camped outside the Broward recount center could be there out of hatred of her skin color."
Though she declined to elaborate during her brief interview, when asked if race played a factor, she answered: “Probably. Probably.”
Add this to the already growing list of missteps by Broward and Palm Beach election officials. Unbelievable! Maybe Snipes is working with the Russians.
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