Democrats can't be trusted

Elizabeth Vaughn:

Democrats have made it clear that, when it comes to gaining power, they can no longer be trusted to do the right thing.

We have to wonder how many close elections, rightly won by a Republican candidate, unscrupulous Democratic election officials have stolen. This is not paranoia. Unfortunately, it’s the new reality. If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that we can never again give Democrats the benefit of the doubt, especially when the situation involves power.

Florida Governor and Senator-elect Rick Scott appeared on Hannity last night to discuss the current situation in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Overseeing events in Florida for the Democrats is lawyer Mark Elias, who is a partner with the Perkins Coie law firm, where he is in charge of their Political Law practice.

He also served as the general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. In that capacity, he arranged to funnel money from the DNC and the Clinton campaign through Perkins Coie, to opposition research firm Fusion GPS to pay for the infamous Trump Dossier. He’s made his motives clear.

Elias declared on a conference call Thursday morning that the senator will be victorious and by the end of the month, he’ll be preparing for a fourth term in Washington.

“At the end of this process Sen. Nelson is going to prevail,” Elias said. “I am very measured in how I treat what I say. When I say it is currently a jump ball … I mean that.”

He is not there to straighten out the ballot issues. Rather, he is there to make sure that Sen. Bill Nelson wins at any cost.

Unfortunately, the passage of time makes fraud detection all the more difficult. It’s great that Rick Scott and the NRSC filed lawsuits on Thursday evening against election officials in Broward and Palm Beach counties and won both suits on Friday evening. But time is of the essence when processing ballots and we have to wonder what fraudulent activities officials have been able to cover up in the meantime.

Why do recounts only seem to benefit Democrats? In the very close 2004 Washington gubernatorial election, Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican candidate Dino Rossi. Close initial results gave the race to Rossi as did a second machine recount. Lo and behold, a third manual recount gave the race to Gregoire by 127 votes.

Another well-known recount which resulted in a Democratic victory actually changed the course of history.

Sometimes, the difference between the passage or failure of controversial legislation comes down to one vote. After a close election night victory for Republican Senator Norm Coleman, a recount, and much legal wrangling, Al Franken was declared the winner in the 2008 Minnesota senate race. Ballots seemed to materialize out of the blue and many Republicans suspected fraud. Two years later, even the left leaning U.S. News & World Report acknowledged that Franken’s seat may have been fraudulently won.

It looks increasingly likely that at least one member of the United States Senate may owe his seat in the world’s greatest deliberative body not to his charisma or the persuasiveness of his message but to voter fraud.

As the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund reports, Minnesota Democrat Al Franken’s narrow, 312-vote victory in 2008 over incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman may have come as the result of people being allowed to vote who, under existing law, shouldn’t have been.

It was found that the votes of convicted felons, considered illegal votes under Minnesota election law, propelled Franken to victory. “The number of felons voting in two counties alone exceeds Mr. Franken’s victory margin.”

The significance of Franken’s win is that his vote was critical in passing Obamacare.
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They have been at it even longer.  Lyndon Johnson won the Democrat nomination for his first Senate term because of a stuffed ballot box "found" after the votes had already been counted.  In 1060 shenanigans in Chicago were used to give John Kennedy a win in Illinois which put him over the top.  Already in Florida, some Democrats were trying to get votes from illegal aliens counted and the Broward County election official is accused of stuffing unsigned ballots into the stock of already approved ballots.