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[Video 2] Spotted at 3:30pm: #Broward SOE staffers moving significant number boxes labeled “early voting” onto pallets and into another room. As I was recording, another SOE employee came & intentionally blocked my camera. I moved over his shoulder for clear shot. #FloridaRecount
Update: Dr. Snipes ordered all of the page 1s of Early Voting ballots counted again to cross check the new count with the count marked on each box, the goal being to see if that would turn up any of the 2040 missing ballots. Didn’t tell Canvassing Board or observers in advance.
Only #Broward SOE staff handling page recount. A BSO deputy told me he observed some & noticed counting machines flawed. Ex: one batch of page 1s might result in a count of 240 and then same batch is re-run to get count of 220 ballots. Not consistent. As of 7pm haven’t heard more
Miami Dade #FloridaRecount hand count update:
Senate race ✅Done
Net gain for Bill Nelson = 181 votes.
(Rick Scott -167, Nelson- 348)
Ag Commish race count is set to start at 2pm
Attorneys tell me they have seen some “interesting artwork” on the ballots. Stay tuned..
@WPLGLocal10
Senate race ✅Done
Net gain for Bill Nelson = 181 votes.
(Rick Scott -167, Nelson- 348)
Ag Commish race count is set to start at 2pm
Attorneys tell me they have seen some “interesting artwork” on the ballots. Stay tuned..
@WPLGLocal10
This is Richard Rosenthal, an attorney repping Bill Nelson in the Miami Dade handcount... talks about some of what he is seeing on the ballots⏩
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.... apparently on one of the “overvote” ballots.. someone wrote in Oprah for Florida Senate ...
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Breaking: Florida recount: Hand recount ordered in U.S. Senate race in Florida
#ThursdayThoughts #CountEveryBallot #FloridaRecount wapo.st/2qOXTTG?tid=ss…
#ThursdayThoughts #CountEveryBallot #FloridaRecount wapo.st/2qOXTTG?tid=ss…
2/"The five-day sprint to run ballots in Florida through counting machines for a second time ended Thursday, with the state ordering a manual recount of results in the U.S. Senate race, where about 12,600 votes separated Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson from Republican Rick Scott
3/"the state’s governor. No such measure was ordered in the governor’s race, where former congressman Ron DeSantis (R) held an edge over Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D). Palm Beach County’s election supervisor said less than an hour before the 3 p.m. deadline that they would
🚨 Miami Dade #FloridaRecount results, per Christina White, Sup of Elections:
Machine recount of 813,000+ ballots = 96 fewer ballots than on Election Day (.01% variance )
“There is always a change ... because of the human factor”
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Machine recount of 813,000+ ballots = 96 fewer ballots than on Election Day (.01% variance )
“There is always a change ... because of the human factor”
@WPLGLocal10
White credits staff for making Miami Dade recount issue-free and on-time- “It does feel good to make our county shine in the process...”
The 24-hour-a-day operation began with an all-nighter reading 15K vote-by-mail ballots that came in on Election Day.
@WPLGLocal10
The 24-hour-a-day operation began with an all-nighter reading 15K vote-by-mail ballots that came in on Election Day.
@WPLGLocal10
Attention now turns to the imminent hand count...waiting for that order from Sec of State (on or after 3pm state machine-count deadline)
Miami Dade has already separated, in sealed bins, the under- and over-votes for that... Will start with Senate race, than Ag race.
@WPLGLocal10
Miami Dade has already separated, in sealed bins, the under- and over-votes for that... Will start with Senate race, than Ag race.
@WPLGLocal10
They’re Trying To Stop The Count — Again! gregpalast.com/theyre-trying-… #FloridaRecount #FloridaRecount2018 #Florida
My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in #Florida. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical — GOP bullies trying to stop the vote count. gregpalast.com/floridas-flawe…
This week in #Florida, my camera crew captured menacing crowds supporting the GOP chanting ‘Stop the count’—the exact phrase the GOP chanted in 2000. And in 2018, Democratic demonstrators are chanting ‘Count all the votes'—the exact same (failed) chant from 2000. #FloridaRecount
Happening now: Miami Dade @MayorGimenez update re- county’s #FloridaRecount -
Ahead of schedule, continually looking for the “needle in a haystack”. Listen:
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Ahead of schedule, continually looking for the “needle in a haystack”. Listen:
@WPLGLocal10
Miami Dade is finding & setting aside the “under” & “over” votes for likely hand-recounts in Senate & Ag races.
Their general numbers of those so far, in just this one county:
Senate: 10,000
Gov: 12,000
Ag Commish: 31,000
The significance?...👇🏼
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Their general numbers of those so far, in just this one county:
Senate: 10,000
Gov: 12,000
Ag Commish: 31,000
The significance?...👇🏼
@WPLGLocal10 1/2
Here are the current margins in the races:
Senate: Scott leads Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes, 0.15% Governor: DeSantis leads Gillum by 33,684 votes, 0.41%
Ag Sec: Fried leads Caldwell by 5,326 votes, 0.06%
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Senate: Scott leads Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes, 0.15% Governor: DeSantis leads Gillum by 33,684 votes, 0.41%
Ag Sec: Fried leads Caldwell by 5,326 votes, 0.06%
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#FloridaRecount update from Miami Dade :
They hit the halfway mark, >400K ballots recounted since the machines started 5:50pm Saturday.
The ballots you see stacked on the table 👇🏼are among those coming out with under or over votes.
@WPLGLocal10
They hit the halfway mark, >400K ballots recounted since the machines started 5:50pm Saturday.
The ballots you see stacked on the table 👇🏼are among those coming out with under or over votes.
@WPLGLocal10
A truck with 5 more high-speed ballot-counting machines pulled into Miami Dade Election HQ..ordered from Omaha. When set-up/operable, 14 machines will be recounting ballots non-stop until finished.
No doubt here that they’ll finish before Thu afternoon state deadline @WPLGLocal10
No doubt here that they’ll finish before Thu afternoon state deadline @WPLGLocal10
“We (Miami Dade) have the most votes but I also saw in Bay County (pop<200K) , destroyed by the hurricane, they had no problems there either“ - @CommishDiaz + more on how the biggest county in the state is getting it right⏩
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THREAD: Much punditry around the #FloridaRecount but not much in the way of education regarding what is, in fact, happening and is supposed to happen under the law.
After 14 hours working the recount in my county, I want to get a few things straight. Let's dig in.
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After 14 hours working the recount in my county, I want to get a few things straight. Let's dig in.
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The initial "recount" is mandated by law if any contest is within .50%. Most know this. But what they don't know if how this "machine recount" works. Across the state VOLUNTEER poll workers are sitting in front of voting machines simply re-feeding the ballots. That is it.
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Fraud? No chance. They are forbidden from having anything aside from a red pen. They cannot do anything but feed the machines. It looks and sounds like the video slots at a cheap casino. One worker even said, "When do I get my coupon for the free buffet?"
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Most recent status update that I can find at the moment.
#CountEveryVote #FloridaRecount
Florida Begins Vote Recounts in Senate and Governor’s Races
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#CountEveryVote #FloridaRecount
Florida Begins Vote Recounts in Senate and Governor’s Races
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2/"Florida began the first full, statewide vote recount in its history on Saturday after authorities found that tallies submitted by its 67 counties left the contests for Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner too close to call. Recounts were also ordered in a State Senate
3/"race and two contests for the State House, a measure of the slender margins in the nation’s largest swing state that have left two of the most closely watched races in the country still undecided, four days after the midterm elections. After unofficial results came in shortly
Perspective | Trump is wrong. Concession speeches aren’t binding at all.
#FloridaRecount #CountEveryVote
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/1…
#FloridaRecount #CountEveryVote
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2/"On Friday afternoon, President Trump fired off the kind of angry tweet he normally composes in the wee hours of the morning. “Mayor Gillum conceded on Election Day and now Broward County has put him ‘back into play.’ Bill Nelson conceded Election — now he’s back in play!?” he
3/"wrote. “This is an embarrassment to our Country and to Democracy!” As Trump suggests, Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum had ostensibly ended his campaign on election night with a concession speech, announcing he had called his opponent Republican Ron
Making deadline... looks like all #Florida counties’ election results are now reported in to FL Div of Elections
Here’s where the numbers stand:
@WPLGLocal10 #FloridaRecount #Elections2018
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Here’s where the numbers stand:
@WPLGLocal10 #FloridaRecount #Elections2018
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Florida Senate Race: Rick Scott leads Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes ... that’s 0.15% - headed for machine recount & hand recount
@WPLGLocal10 #FloridaRecount #Elections2018
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Florida Governor Race: Ron DeSantis leads Andrew Gillum by 33,684 votes ... that’s 0.41% - headed for machine recount
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Hearing is underway - Attorney representing plaintiffs Senate candidate Rick Scott and National Republican Senatorial committee:
“We are here to contest the denial of access that public is entitled to. This is not about counting ballots.”
@WPLGLocal10
“We are here to contest the denial of access that public is entitled to. This is not about counting ballots.”
@WPLGLocal10
Scott & GOP tell judge “ what we asked for (post election voter numbers) should have been readily available”... “we actually sent a runner - with public records request ...(between noon-1pm thur) ..
Sup of Elections Snipes did not respond
Sup of Elections Snipes did not respond
Complaint does not allege fraud or corruption. Rick Scott did that verbally in his press conference last night.
Hearing # 2 of the day--Gov. Rick Scott is suing Broward's election supervisor over a lack of transparency and an unwillingness to disclose public records.
The hearing is scheduled to start shortly.
#FloridaRecount @wlrn
The hearing is scheduled to start shortly.
#FloridaRecount @wlrn
Scott's attorney says records request to Broward election dept was given 26 hours ago. He didn't get a response back and says that the clerk did not meet her duties to respond in a reasonable time.
