Attorney fees sought to contest Florida's election (Not a Jill Stein effort)

[flamingdem]

Last edited Sun Dec 4, 2016, 12:31 AM - Edit history (1)

https://protectourelections.nationbuilder.com/florida_recount

Lawsuit filed last night 10 min before the deadline (congrats to all involved):
http://www.protectourelections.org/2016/12/03/clint-curtis-florida-recount-lawsuit-filed/

Link to the complaint:

Here is a link to the "Complaint" if you care to read it.

http://www.protectourelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Complaint.pdf

From their website:

We need attorney fees to contest Florida's election!

This election is about making sure every vote is counted. The nonpartisan movement for election integrity helped launch recount efforts that are underway in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Now we need your help to act on information we received about voting abnormalities in Florida.

In Florida, the infamous DS-200 optical scan machine is in use in many parts of the state. Affidavits from voters illegally turned away from the polls are being gathered. And county election officials are reporting that 25,000 absentee ballots were requested but never sent out in Broward County alone.

Unfortunately, Florida law has been changed to make it all but impossible to have a recount. The only avenue for inspecting the ballots is to file a lawsuit contesting the election results, and that must be done by Friday, Dec 2nd.

We Have to Know, a nonpartisan group of Wisconsin-based election integrity experts and organizers, believes that every vote must be counted fairly, accurately, and honestly. (Find us on our Facebook group.) We were successful helping make a recount happen in Wisconsin, but nowhere is this principle of election integrity more important to defend than in Florida, with its 29 electoral votes, a long history of election problems and malfeasance, and where most votes were counted on the DS200, an error-prone and insecure machine decertified for use by California. We've been organizing activists and lawyers in Florida to prepare a lawsuit.

Leonisia Olivares has agreed to stand as a plaintiff for fair elections, and the law firm of Clint Curtis has taken the case and will be filing suit on Friday. We need to raise $25,000 to cover the initial litigation costs for our side and $25,000 to protect the plaintiff in the event of liability for opposition attorney's fees. ProtectOurElections.org is a 501c3 that has stepped forward to be the fiscal sponsor for our election integrity work, and donations made are tax-deductible.

There is not a lot of time, and without this suit, we may never know whether the machines were secure and that every vote was fairly counted. Please help us ensure election integrity in Florida by making a tax-deductible donation today.

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[Aimee in OKC]

1. Clint Curtis ...

If this is him ... an interesting fellow -- attorney, computer programmer, whistleblower, and more .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis

[flamingdem]

2. Yes, Clint Curtis is being discussed in the thread on 2016 Postmortem

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2641157

See post #12 by Elipsis

[elleng]

3. Right, and understand how it 'works,' and doesn't work.

[flamingdem]

4. He seems to be well know around here!

Fingers crossed

[elleng]

5. Well known 'around here' isn't always worth much,

but at least for his understanding of the process, and MAL-process, he's valuable.

[NightWatcher]

6. What's the point of this? If no one gets 270 EV's by Dec 19(?) the House gets to pick

And I'm going out on a limb to guess they'll pick trump and take the choice out of the People's hands.

[flamingdem]

7. The point is to get to 270

[roamer65]

8. Then they will own it, lock, stock and barrel.

[davidn3600]

9. This election is over, folks!!!

Trump might be right. This does look like a scam. The only people benefiting at this point are lawyers and these organizations that make a living off of this type of thing.

Trump won Florida by 120,000 votes. And the state is already certified. Nothing is going to flip.

I think people need to start realizing that Donald Trump is going to be President of this country no matter what. All this money is now being thrown away on conspiracy theories and pipe dreams when it could be going to better use. There has been absolutely zero evidence of any hacking or tampering of any election equipment in any state. You can recount the state all you want, the results will not change until there is some kind of evidence.

[flamingdem]

10. Disagree heartily, there is every reason to pursue this

and learn all we can about how the Republicans play dirty, and they do.

[politicaljunkie41910]

11. Then move along and stop worrying about it. But my guess is that everyone on this board is an

adult and capable of making an informed decision as well as you are. If we do nothing, and there was tampering or fraud involved and we do nothing to try and identify it as well as the source and the means, it will happen again, trust me. For those of you who couldn't be bothered, with this issue, there are many other threads on this board you can visit, and topics you can lecture on. That's the beauty of this country; we all have choices. At least for now, pre president-elect Trump and his veto-proof GOP Congress. Move along. Everyone here knows the stakes and your comments are nothing people haven't already considered.