Group Sues to Demand Florida Election Recount - 160k votes not counted!

[flamingdem]

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/group-sues-to-demand-florida-election-recount-8971831

To donate and follow:
https://protectourelections.nationbuilder.com/florida_recount

Protect Our Elections, a liberal-leaning group based in Washington, D.C., says more than 160,000 votes in Florida weren't counted during last month's presidential election. The group claims each of those votes matters a great deal because Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 112,911 votes in the Sunshine State. Trump won by roughly 1.5 percent, a margin high enough to avoid the state's automatic-recount provisions.

But last Friday, Protect Our Elections sued the state to contest the election, possibly throwing President-elect Trump's transition into an even greater state of turmoil.

For the past 30 days, failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein has launched a much-ballyhooed (but perfectly legal) attempt to recount votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, forcing the country to grapple with the question of exactly how hackable our election system really is. But despite how crucial Florida's 29 Electoral College votes are to the election, nobody has thrown Florida's election results under the microscope until now.

After raising more than $65,000 online, Protect Our Elections sued to contest the election at 11:48 p.m. Friday, a scant 12 minutes before the state's election-lawsuit deadline. The group claims — citing what looks to be extremely shaky evidence — the vote totals do not include "tens of thousands" of legal votes that weren't counted because of alleged vote-machine malfunctions, but do include "tens of thousands of illegal votes that were improperly counted."

In addition, the lawsuit claims that at least 25,000 mail-in ballots were requested but never received in Broward County, that the state's voting machines could have been hacked, and that Florida this year posted an "abnormally high invalid vote rate."

[spanone]

1. K&R...

[babylonsister]

2. Good. I hope this goes places. nt

[Equinox Moon]

3. Our elections should be audit on a regular basis

I can well imagine there are a lot of irregularities. 50 states and 1000's of districts can't possibly all be getting it right.
The nature of human beings is to make mistakes, whether on purpose or not.

[Land Shark]

4. Kick. Uncounted votes again.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

5. K&R nt

[world wide wally]

6. Can we see a pattern here?

[INdemo]

7. This is great and I hope like hell the Frodia elction board is forced to recount.

Has anyone noticed that our fearless Democratic leaders in Washington,Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, hasn't said shit about the possible election fraud in the battleground states?

[Aimee in OKC]

13. If the lawsuit gets blocked (or citizens want to attempt something on their own) ...

1. According to Verified Voting, Florida uses a mix of paper ballots & DRE Touchscreen machines.
https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#year/2016/state/12

Optical Scan readers capture an anonymous image of the ballot as it is scanned, and keep them in memory. Some of the Touchscreens do that as well. No personal information is included on the images, so there might be no legal reason to not release images to citizens. An FOIA demand to appropriate election officials for the downloads would probably be denied, but until it's tried, who knows?

2. Below the FL map see the machines listed as being used. {Also, clicking on a county gets quick info on it alone.}

a. Scroll & click in turn on each machine to explore the "Security Concerns" & "Important Notes" = see their vulnerabilities, which are many and varied.

b. Or go to the page below, in its right-hand column: https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/

BALLOT MARKING (Accessible)
Election Systems & Software = AutoMARK, ExpressVote
Dominion Voting Systems = ImageCast Evolution

POLLING PLACE EQUIPMENT
Premier/Diebold (Dominion) = AccuVote TSX ... DRE-Touchscreen
Sequoia (Dominion) = AVC Edge ... DRE-Touchscreen
Election Systems & Software = iVotronic ... DRE-Touchscreen
Premier/Diebold (Dominion) = AccuVote OS ... Optical Scan
Election Systems & Software = AutoMARK ... Optical Scan
Election Systems & Software = DS200 ... Optical Scan
Dominion Voting Systems = ImageCast Precinct ... Optical Scan
Election Systems & Software = Model 100 ... Optical Scan
Sequoia (Dominion) = Optech Insight ... Optical Scan

4. To see Florida's 2 pages of county-by-county list of specific machines used, scroll down to "Search Equipment" dropdowns in lower left. Select Florida & 2016, and SEARCH.

[Maraya1969]

25. What are you saying? Can the citizens demand a recount? Who would do the recount?

[Beartracks]

22. Frodian slip?

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[turbinetree]

8. K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. "failed Green Party candidate"

the "failed" wouldn't appear in other country's press.

[lonestarnot]

10. Fuck you Florida. Can't you count past 10 over there?

[SheLiberal]

11. They can count enough to cheat.

They know exactly what they are doing in Florida and if allowed they will get better at stealing each election!

[lonestarnot]

12. Looks like they've done a good job in 4 elections now.

[liberalla]

14. K&R

[Hekate]

15. KnR

[Ligyron]

16. K to the R!

me too

[DK504]

17. WHAT?

"... more than 160,000 votes in Florida weren't counted during last month's presidential election."

Why wasn't this brought up before the deadline? This makes me want to pound my head against the wall. There can be NO winner until ALL the votes are counted. What is wrong with us?

[gademocrat7]

18. K&R

[BSdetect]

19. K&R

[niyad]

20. k and r

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Void the election, do-over in 2017

They're doing it in North Carolina

[sheshe2]

23. K&R

[JudyM]

24. Their recount needs to be funded. They are hoping tRump will help, good luck with that.