Shill candidates set up to syphon votes from Democratic candidates in Miami-Dade

[Nevilledog]

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Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
Crazy story: "Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three candidates in three Florida Senate district races, two of them in Miami Dade County, were shill candidates whose presence in the races were meant to syphon votes from Democratic candidates."

Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money
The race for a state senate seat is going to a recount, with the candidates separated by just 31 votes, but there is a lot more to this intriguing political race.
local10.com
8:53 AM · Nov 12, 2020

[soothsayer]

1. That story is creepy as hell

[nycbos]

2. Dems should start playing this game.

We have to fight dirty if they fight dirty.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. And when everybody is fighting dirty, the whole system falls apart. nt

[MineralMan]

4. We had one of those in a House district in Minnesota.

Some guy ran as a candidate for the Legal Marijuana Now party in that district. He died before the election, but before he did he admitted that he had been recruited by the Republicans to run so he could steal votes from the Demcratic candidate. She won, anyhow, but they tried, and he got 6% of the vote in that district.

it's a strategy the Republicans often use, I'm afraid.

Minnesota 2nd Congressional District

Angie Craig
Democratic Party
48.2%
204,031

Tyler Kistner
Republican Party
46%
194,466

Adam Weeks
Legal Marijuana Now Party
5.8%
24,693

[SharonClark]

5. There is also this fakery in Florida...

Someone is trying to trick Democrats into casting a vote they certainly would regret: for far right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.

A blue card passed out to voters in Palm Beach County lists which Democrats to vote for, but it includes the Republican Loomer instead of her Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel.

Every other candidate on the card is a Democrat. Loomer? Most definitely not.

No one is admitting to the trickery. Not the Republican Party and not Loomer, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/fl-ne-pbc-election-loomer-20201022-nsmyj2bc7bcavjch6d6hj2ijxi-story.html

[SharonClark]

6. A tweet doesn't do this story justice.

Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money

MIAMI – Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?

Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three such candidates in three Florida Senate district races, two of them in Miami Dade County, were shill candidates whose presence in the races were meant to syphon votes from Democratic candidates.

Comparisons of the no-party candidates' public campaign records show similarities and connections that suggest they are all linked by funding from the same dark money donors, and part of an elaborate scheme to upset voting patterns.

In one of those races, District 37, a recount is underway because the spread between the Democratic and Republican candidates is only 31 votes. The third party candidate received more than 6300 votes.

More at ... https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/

[BComplex]

7. They need to audit the paper ballots cast against what the machine tabulated.

Same in NC.

[crickets]

8. K&R for visibility.