Republican Gov. Rick Scott Was Just Sued Over His Role In The Florida Recount
Source: Buzzfeed News
Republican Gov. Rick Scott has filed at least five lawsuits since Thursday against county election officials and instructed state police to investigate them for “fraud.” But on Monday, a group of Florida voters and organizations filed their own lawsuit that alleges Scott has illegally abused his power as governor to swing the outcome of his own high-profile race for US senator, wielding the threat of a crackdown and controlling state government in order to stop legal votes from being counted.
Scott’s tiny lead has shrunk in the senate race against incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson as late votes were tallied last week in urban, left-leaning counties around Miami, causing Republicans to panic and accuse Democrats of trying to “steal” the election. Officials up and down Florida started machine recount of the midterm vote Saturday, as mandated by law when the margins whittle below 0.5%, yet Scott has stood outside the governor’s mansion to decry Democrats and local officials.
“His continued interventions in the race violate the basic notion of fairness that no man should be a judge in his own cause,” says the suit filed by a voter in Broward County, the League of Women Voters of Florida, and Common Cause Florida. The groups are government transparency organizations that say they have members who backed Scott and Nelson. Another plaintiff is Joanne Lynch Aye, a voter in Broward County.
The group Protect Democracy filed the lawsuit for the plaintiffs.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/rick-scott-lawsuit-recount
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“His continued interventions in the race violate the basic notion of fairness that no man should be a judge in his own cause,”
He needs to be court ordered to STFU. And await the vote recount like everybody else.
Perhaps since I so dearly want them both to take their rightful won place in FL governance.
Thanks for the correction.
from their loyal base to those who will join them wherever their political path takes them.
Neither will return to the obscurity they once knew. They belong to us all
Great organizations for protecting voting and civil rights.
Don't even try convincing me you've never seen the resemblance!
Gov. Rick Scott, they should invent a new award just for you.
