The Democrats post election Senate seat theft game

J.E. Dyer:

To paraphrase Shakespeare’s famous character Hamlet, things be rotten in the State of Florida vote count.

When Sen. Marco Rubio put out an incendiary tweet thread Thursday morning indicating grave concern that Democrats were making an attempt to steal the two major races in Florida – governor and U.S. senator – I wasn’t the only one startled and fascinated by the move.

It’s a big allegation, after all. It wasn’t that long ago that it would have been all but unthinkable for a sitting U.S. senator to clearly imply it, especially in a casual but high-profile social media forum

John Podhoretz

✔@jpodhoretz

I've never seen anything like this. Sen. Rubio is effectively accusing the elections supervisor in Broward County of holding votes in reserve in some fashion to use tactically in a recount.https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1060596874577657856 …

Marco Rubio

✔@marcorubio

Long but IMPORTANT THREAT ON ELECTIONS IN #FLORIDA.#BayCounty was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago,yet managed to count votes & submit timely results.

Yet over 41 hours after polls closed #Broward elections office is still counting votes? #Sayfie

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But there it was. It’s worth reading in full. Rubio stitches together with a few brief tweets the gist of the concern: that the questionable activity is centered on Broward County, where there have been a number of instances of court-recognized vote tampering before (see links in Rubio’s thread); that one of the officials chiefly involved, county election supervisor Dr. Brenda Snipes, is presiding over the 2018 vote count; and that numbers aren’t making sense and stashes of ballots are popping up out of nowhere.

Others are seeing dubious trends in what’s going on, such as a vote total for one of the top races on the ballot – U.S. senator, between incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Governor Rick Scott – that is so low in Broward County that it makes no sense.
How to explain the anomaly? A good question, to which proposed answers that don’t involve chicanery are not credible. One reasonable possibility would be that the vote-counters are withholding a higher number until they decide what it needs to be to give Nelson the win statewide.
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What could stand a good airing is the history of “Hillary lawyer” Marc Elias, of Fusion GPS-hiring, dossier-commissioning fame, with working on some of the most contentious recounts in the last 20 years.

Elias leads the delegation of Democratic lawyers “descending on Florida,” to use Rubio’s expression. And vote recounts and voting-rights lawsuits were well known as Elias’s specialty long before he gained notoriety as Hillary’s man at Perkins Coie, the go-between for the Steele dossier in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Funny how everytime Mr. Elias shows up so do uncounted ballots–out of thin air.
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Eventually, the Minnesota Supreme Court decided to award the election to Franken, who prevailed by a total of 312 votes. A watchdog group challenging ineligible votes was able to establish, however, that more than 312 votes were cast in 2008 by convicted felons, who were voting illegally under the law at the time. (The tally was at least 393, and as discussed by Byron York in 2012 may have been more than 1,000.)
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There is much more.

There is also a House race in Florida where Democrats are trying to get unsigned ballots counted

Florida is not the only place where shenanigans are going on to steal a Senate seat.

Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jonathan Lines accused Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes of destroying evidence, in the midst of the ongoing vote count in the razor-thin contest for a U.S. Senate seat between Congresswomen Martha McSally (R.) and Krysten Sinema (D.).

Late Thursday night, new updates from many of the recorders across the state shot Sinema past McSally to take a roughly 9,600 vote lead, whereas just the night before, it was McSally who led the contest by about 17,000 votes.

After the Thursday night update, roughly 400,000 votes were still to be counted, the bulk of which were in Maricopa, which is leaning toward Sinema this cycle. It was the Maricopa update which provided the new lead for Sinema.

The accusations by Lines dovetail with a lawsuit filed Thursday by four county divisions of the Republican Party against all of the recorders in the state as well as the secretary of state.
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The Justice Department needs to investigate officials in Florida and Arizona as well as Democrat operatives who are backing this apparent vote theft operation.  RICO could be a vehicle for such an investigation.