Governor Scott increased his lead by about a thousand votes in initial recount returns (many coming from Broward county where both candidates "lost" votes). More returns likely to come.
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| So effective, that you hardly know Palm Beach county election workers are there recounting. |
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| Nobody can quite figure out why Palm Beach county could not make the deadline. You can just see the intensity and determination in play. |
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Unbelievable.
Totally incompetent vote tabulation.
Disgrace.
Stick with initial or re-vote with competent personnel and fixed rules.
Maybe borrow from other counties who know how to do this...
Right on cue Nelson files another lawsuit.
Nelson trails by 12000. Gillum trails by 33000. Time to concede the damn races.
How goes the GA election.
Did the race card work?
Gillum is a done deal there will be no further recounts in that race. DeSantis will be the next governor of Florida.
Broward misses their deadline because the "could figure out how to report the results to the website".
The real reason? The recount lost Nelson votes.
lorida Orders Hand Recount
November 15, 2018 at 5:35 pm EST
“An unprecedented statewide hand recount is now under way in the Sunshine State, further extending a high-stakes, partisan battle over every last vote in Florida’s crucial U.S. Senate race,” the Miami Herald reports.
“Following a five-day machine recount of the more than 8.3 million votes cast in the Nov. 6 elections, Secretary of State Ken Detzner ordered hand recounts Thursday afternoon in the race between Sen Bill Nelson (D) and Gov. Rick Scott (R).
“The order gives canvassing boards in the state’s 67 counties three days to pore over thousands of ballots that were rejected by machines because of ‘overvotes’ — a voter appears to have chosen more than one candidate in a race — or ‘undervotes,’ in which a voter appears to have skipped a race altogether.”
Is every ballot found?
Accounting for over votes, voided ballot for the race.
Underscore.
I do that a lot. So valid for races I voted in.
James in your learned view, does it flip Democrat and two wins?
Snipes submitted her recount two minutes late .why? Because Scott had s net increase.
Freaking unbelievable. Such corruption.
Trump Regularly Mocks Hannity’s ‘Dumb’ Questions
Daily Beast:
“Donald Trump’s close relationship—on air and off—with Sean Hannity hasn’t stopped the president from mocking the Fox News star behind his back for being such a suck-up, according to three sources who have independently heard this mockery.
“Trump has repeatedly—and sometimes for a sustained period of time—made fun of Hannity’s interviewing skills, usually zeroing in on the low-quality laziness of the host’s questions.
“The president’s recurring complaints often focus on how sycophantic the TV host can be, both on and off camera, with Hannity’s slobbering leaving no friction to generate the sparks and drama that Trump craves.”
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The Two Parties Represent Two Different Economies
CNBC: “Among other results, this year’s midterm elections affirmed this much: in Washington, the two parties now speak for dramatically different segments of the American economy.
“Republicans represent the smaller, fading segment, with less-educated, more-homogenous work forces reliant on traditional manufacturing, agriculture and resource extraction. Democrats represent the larger, growing one, fueled by finance, professional services and digital innovation in diverse urban areas.
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Ohio Democrats Won More Votes But Remain In Minority
“As Ohio Republicans won the race for every statewide executive job from the governor on down this year, something different happened in lower-profile races. The Democrats actually collected more total votes in the 116 Ohio House and Senate elections across the state,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
“It’s a takeaway from Election 2018 that isn’t the usual headline grabber. More importantly, in terms of controlling Ohio’s government, the GOP won 72 of the 116 Statehouse races. But the Republicans scored their wins for 62 percent of the seats while collecting just under 50 percent of the total vote.
“This is a lot like what happened in Ohio’s 16 congressional districts, where Republicans won 75 percent of the seats with just 52 percent of the overall vote.”
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Judge Postpones Decision In CNN Lawsuit
A federal judge said he would take another day to decide whether to at least temporarily restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s White House credentials, extending the drama over the network’s lawsuit against President Trump until Friday, CNN reports.
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Trump-Appointed Judge Uphold’s Mueller’s Indictment
A federal judge upheld a federal indictment against the Russian troll farm accused of meddling in the 2016 election, handing a victory to special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reports.
It was the second time that Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, sided with Mueller and let the case proceed.
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Golden Wins House Race In Maine
Jared Golden (D) was declared the winner of Maine’s 2nd congressional district race over Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME) following a historic tabulation of ballots using ranked-choice voting, the Portland Press Herald reports.
“This is the first time in U.S. history that a congressional race was decided using ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to cast ballots for their favorite candidate but also rank other candidates in order of preference. Those ranked-choice votes only come into play, however, when no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote on the initial tally.”
Roll Call notes there are no GOP congressmen left in New England.
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Colorado Indies Overwhelmingly Rejected GOP
A new Magellan Strategies (R) poll finds that Colorado’s unaffiliated voters “turned out for last week’s election in record numbers and turned their backs on Republicans by wide margins.”
Pollster David Flaherty said the poll’s findings “can only be described as extraordinary… because in the past 20 years, never has one political party been so overwhelmingly rejected at every level of representative government by the electorate.”
Broward submitting its recount 2 minutes late helped Democrats Gillum and Nelson by more than 700 votes each. Hillsborough REFUSING to submit its recount helped Dems by nearly 150 votes.
I thought dems wanted every vote to count?
Sean Davis
Rosenstein is a witness, a participant, and a potential culprit in the very activities Mueller is investigating. It’s the height of hackery to claim Whitaker must recuse over conflicts of interest just so Rosenstein can maintain control.
but FAKE NEWS and dems will push the recuse narrative.
Rep. Jim Jordan
It’s been 8 weeks since @nytimes reported that Rod Rosenstein talked to subordinates about recording the President and invoking the 25th Amendment.
Why has Mr. Rosenstein still not testified in front of Congress?
SLICK! Democrat VA Governor To Amazon: We'll Protect You From FOIA Problems
Online retail giant Amazon will be opening two new headquarters — one in New York and one in Virginia. Each state gave the billion-dollar company gobs of money to woo it to open up shop, but Virginia went a step further and gave Amazon something that should worry every journalist and anyone else concerned with transparency and the connection between the State and Big Business.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, has promised Amazon that the Old Dominion State would give the company two days’ notice about any Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. This is being done to allow Amazon “to seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy.” So, Amazon will be given a heads up about anyone looking into the business so they can shut it down.
The Virginia government also promised it would only disclose what is required under applicable law, cooperate “with the company,” in responding, and “limit disclosure, refuse to disclose, and redact and/or omit portions of materials to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.”
Count every vote ?
Nope, win by any means possible.
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