Rick Scott's campaign announces three more election lawsuits

[Julian Englis]

Source: CNN

Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott is filing three lawsuits against county election officials as a recount has gotten underway in the Senate contest between himself and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

In the first complaint, the Scott campaign alleges Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes counted a certain number of ballots after the Saturday noon deadline. The campaign announced it is filing two other lawsuits against Snipes and Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Buchner, requesting voting tabulation equipment be impounded after the machine recount is completed. The lawsuits also request both supervisors be required to preserve all ballots and records connected with the 2018 election.

The initial count in the race had Scott ahead by a small margin -- enough to trigger a recount according state law.

As the recount began, tensions across the state escalated, with candidates, activists and lawyers weighing in and taking issue with the process for the Senate, governor and state agriculture commissioner contests.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/11/politics/rick-scott-florida-election-senate/index.html

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Scott's governor but takes no responsible for his incompetent and corrupt administration's causing these election problems.

[rzemanfl]

1. Fuck you Skeletor, you fraudster. This is going to get ugly. n/t

[Gothmog]

2. From Marc Elias

Link to tweet

[Iliyah]

3. They have something to hide, and

suing in my opinion is a wrong move.

[NBachers]

4. Next, the governor will sue the governor's office for damages.

[durablend]

10. Or he'll sue the voters

"If you'd all have voted for me in the first place none of this would've happened!!!!"

[matt819]

5. Arithmetic has a liberal bias

Not sure if that’s a valid argument.

Also, the 2000 argument that you have to stop counting when our side is ahead worked 18 years ago. Fool me once, shame on ...

[NorCen_CT]

6. All I want for Christmas is an unemployed Rick Scott

[Gothmog]

7. Statement From Sen Bill Nelson

Link to tweet

[RDANGELO]

8. It's not the voter's vault if their vote was counted late!

If all votes are to be counted equally, then they all need to be counted.

[janterry]

9. I hope the Democrats are pouring money into this

Scott has plenty of money and has been buying his way into office since he first ran.

I want us to win this race.

[Just a Weirdo]

11. All three will be dismissed. With extreme prejudice. Bush v Gore is the current karma.

Declare Scott a vexatious litigant, and continue to a complete count.

Only reason to sue is if Scott knows there's illegal activities behind the counts, such as "losing" Democratic votes or provisional ballots gone.

[quaker bill]

12. My take is that this is a Trumpian diversion

He wants all eyes and the media focused on Palm Beach County, so no one is paying attention to the red counties. In the past it has always been the backwoods burgs where the trunk loads of curious ballots were delivered...

[Maine-i-acs]

13. Don't let them impound the tabulators

check the code
check the seals
check for undervotes
check for flips

check the machine output vs. the ballots fed into it vs. the tabulator's score for that machine.

But don't give it to Skeletor Scott. They want the tabulators for a reason.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Republicans have governed Florida for decades. Now it is the Democrat's fault for screwy election?

The Republicans designed their election system to be as unruly and unaccountable as possible. This crap happens again and again, but you never saw the Republicans fretting about it before.