Lawsuit filed to force Florida recount

[flamingdem]

Wow and just in the nick of time according to this tweet:


Andrea Chalupa ‏@AndreaChalupa 22h22 hours ago

Great news! With 10 minutes to spare before midnight deadline, a 300 page petition for a recount filed in Florida. #AuditTheVote #RecountFL

Yay! (I know, don't get too optimistic..)



http://www.palmerreport.com/news/lawsuit-officially-filed-to-force-florida-recount/339/

Yesterday a federally registered nonprofit election entity launched a fundraiser to cover the court costs of a lawsuit it intended to file in the name of forcing a statewide recount in the narrowly decided state of Florida. The attorney fees were fully crowdfunded within a matter of hours. And today the attorney in question announced that he has officially filed the lawsuit in question, creating at least some possibility that a Florida recount may happen.

Florida state law prohibits any candidate from requesting a recount, meaning that third party candidate Jill Stein cannot force a recount in the state even if she pays for the costs, as she’s doing in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But this lawsuit is aimed at getting a judge to order a Florida recount, whether republican state officials want to do it or not.

Clint Curtis, the Florida attorney who has been hired to lead the legal charge in court, announced today via his official Facebook page that the election complaint is now indeed underway in the legal arena.

Donald Trump was officially named the winner in Florida, but by a razor thin margin, and only after Hillary Clinton had appeared to bank enough of an early vote lead in the state that it would have been all but mathematically insurmountable for Trump to have come back and won. If the courts do rule that a Florida recount must take place, and if the recount reveals that Clinton did get the most votes in the state, those electoral votes would be reassigned to clinton. Similar scenarios are playing out in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, with the fate of the election hanging in the balance.

[flamingdem]

3. We need this one to happen

If you live in Florida let me know and I'll send you info to help

[MADem]

2. That would be a miracle--I would love to see it because I think she'd win. nt

[flamingdem]

4. From the Clint Curtis FB page

More details on Florida:
I just got off the phone with Clint Curtis the atty who filed the motion for a recount last night in Tallahassee. It was a 549 page brief that included 3 plaintiffs. The court has 10 days to respond. The goal is to get a recount approved before the electors are allowed to vote on Dec 19th. In Florida there are basically 4 different grounds for a recount. The brief covers most, if not all of them. There would need to be bribery of an official, misconduct complaints like being turned away at the polls illegitimately, machine malfunction, evidence of hacking, etc... that could potentially effect the outcome of the race. We lost in Florida by 100,000 votes. If you are willing to help in this amazing endeavor, please join my group warriors for a better world, I have a project for as many of you as I can find to help.

[Aimee in OKC]

17. Clint Curtis: "I have a project for as many of you as I can find to help."

It would be great if he can get this going.
* * * * * * *
Perhaps citizens could assist in a very different sort of vote counting. Florida uses a mix of paper ballots & DRE Touchscreens. The machines capture anonymous images of ballots as they are counted.

Get to the state map: https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#year/2016/state/12

1. Scroll & click in turn on each machine to explore capabilities and security concerns.
2. Click on a county to get quick info on it alone.
3. To see a list of the machines by county, scroll down to the bottom left, select Florida & "SEARCH".

Determine what you want to investigate, get a notarized FOIA request for the anonymous images to the election officials. Take along a number of brand-new, in-their-wrappers flash drives to download the files, in case the FOIA attempt succeeds.

The effort is very likely to be denied, but unless it's tried, who knows what might've happened?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Stunned, but in a good way.

Here we go again. LOL! Some people are going to lose their shit!

[flamingdem]

6. I hope so!

I can't smell victory but I love the fire under their collective rear ends while they try to remember where they dumped the bags of ballots!

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Yup.

[murielm99]

14. You can't smell victory, but you and I can

smell the fire under their rear ends. Burning right-wing ass is good!

[flamingdem]

21. Oh the pure pleasure

Well for the moment we can dream and dream hard, clicking shoes together over here!

[KewlKat]

8. I know many of us are financially tapped out with all the fundraising to fight the election results

but if you have a dollar to spare, you might throw it in this pot.

They currently have $63,000 but I'm sure they'll need more for legal fees.

https://protectourelections.nationbuilder.com/florida_recount

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

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

[flamingdem]

11. Thanks, should this be posted elsewhere?

?

[JudyM]

18. You might also crosspost it in Activism and in the Florida group.

[Nwgirl503]

30. I'm donating

[KewlKat]

38. It's great that you can help out. Thank you!

[Ligyron]

9. Florida would have been the ballgame for Hills.

I'm in FL and I'll look up your group tomorrow!

[Ellipsis]

10. Clint Curtis... Wild. It's Old home week on the election fraud front.

[flamingdem]

12. Remind me please?

Can't recall his involvement

[Ellipsis]

13. Allow me to elucidate on this deep rabbit hole.

"Curtis is a computer programmer who worked for Yang Enterprises in Oviedo, Florida until February 2001. He made a series of allegations about his former employer and about Republican Congressman Tom Feeney, including an allegation that in 2000, Feeney and Yang Enterprises requested Curtis's assistance in a scheme to steal votes by inserting fraudulent code into touch screen voting systems. In particular, he alleged that at the behest of Feeney, in September 2000, he was asked to write a program for a touchscreen voting machine that would make it possible to change the results of an election undetectably. This technology, Curtis explained, could also be used in any electronic tabulation machine or scanner. Curtis assumed initially that this effort was aimed at detecting Democratic fraud, but later learned that it was intended to benefit the Republican Party."

Clint Curtis Investigator's "Suicide" case reopened by Georgia Police!
http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=283

[flamingdem]

16. Well, well

Curtis seems to be the man for the job! I'll keep reading up on this one.

[JudyM]

19. He knows what he's doing. Great to see him at the helm. Won't tolerate shenanigans.

[flamingdem]

20. They need help - Floridians with voting complaints

Not sure how well they're doing with all of that, but great to learn he's an old pro!!

[jmg257]

15. Cool - we only lost Fla by 120,000 votes! Anything can happen now.

[ancianita]

22. It's potentially 29 more electors, which could easily swing four more Hamiltons Dec.19.

[flamingdem]

23. This one would do it

Since several other electors are refusing to vote Trump

[triron]

24. knr

[flamingdem]

25. +1

[Raster]

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[flamingdem]

27. Make it so! Repubs in full panic mode according to this article

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-campaign-and-gop-allies-full-legal-panic-recounts-could-create-electoral-college

[ucrdem]

28. K'n'R

If nothing else another battle royale in FLA probably meansthere won't be enough certified electors to put Agent Orange over on the 19th...

[flamingdem]

29. If this happens

just imagine the celebration.. too soon to have that thought but woo hoo!

[Madam45for2923]

31. Woah! woah! woah!!!

[California_Republic]

32. filed in a Circuit court

I wonder how long that take to move through?

[spooky3]

33. Welcome to DU.

[Ellipsis]

36. The whole point was just to get on the docket.

[mcar]

34. Great!

I donated to the cause.

[triron]

35. knr

[jack69]

37. Hope springs eternal.

Have to try anything.

[triron]

39. yes