Rick Scott thinks he can win his Senate race by interrupting vote counting
He accused "unethical liberals" of trying to steal the election.
ZACK FORD NOV 9, 2018, 9:21 AM
Florida’s unresolved elections for governor and Senator just got considerably more contentious. Current governor and Senate candidate Rick Scott (R) filed a lawsuit Thursday against Democratic elections supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach Counties and directed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate them.
Building on the conspiracy theories Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) began floating earlier this week, Scott’s suit implies that the ongoing efforts to simply count every vote — however slowly — are tantamount to an effort on the part of Democrats to somehow steal the election. “Every Floridian should be concerned there may be rampant fraud happening in Palm Beach and Broward Counties,” he said Thursday night on the steps of the Governor’s Mansion.
Scott described the counties as having demonstrated “incompetence and irregularities in vote tabulations” for years, before accusing “unethical liberals” of trying “to steal this election from the great people of Florida.”
There is currently no evidence to substantiate these partisan allegations.
https://thinkprogress.org/rick-scott-sues-election-officials-claiming-counting-all-votes-equals-rampant-fraud-15b17ef96d01/
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