by Marc A. Thiessen
by Barnini Chakraborty {foxnews.com} ~ Florida’s long-time Democratic Sen. scumbag-Bill Nelson conceded Sunday to Republican challenger Rick Scott... in the hotly contested race to become the next U.S. senator to represent the Sunshine State. Scott was leading scumbag-Nelson by 10,000 votes in the race to become the next U.S. senator to represent Florida, official results showed Sunday. scumbag-Nelson, who served three terms in the U.S. Senate, met his match in Gov. Rick Scott. The victory will be Scott’s third close statewide win in less than a decade. The victory also marks the first time in more than a century that the Sunshine State has two Republican senators representing them in Washington. The state is scheduled to certify results in the race on Nov. 20. Election Day results showed scumbag-Nelson trailing Scott by more than 56,000 votes. Scott’s lead narrowed to 12,603 votes after a statewide machine recount. The new numbers triggered an automatic hand recount under Florida law. It’s unclear what scumbag-Nelson’s plans will be post-race. The 76-year-old was first elected to office in a state House district near Cape Canaveral in 1972. He’s served three terms in the Florida House, six terms in Congress and was Florida’s insurance commissioner after Hurricane Andrew swept the Miami area...
by Sara Carter
by Judith Bergman{economics21.org} ~ The overarching message of “The Opportunity Cost of Socialism”—a study recently released by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)... is that the advocacy of socialism cannot reasonably be based on policy preferences; its attraction has always been grounded in a combination of wishful thinking and ignorance. For example, the new CEA study shows that the socialist approach to “single payer” health care advocated by many on the left would cost much more and deliver much less, resulting in the significant worsening of mortality and morbidity, not just higher taxes and reduced economic growth. One prominent opinion page editor described the CEA study’s conclusions to me as too obvious to warrant mention. That reaction reflects the problem the study seeks to remedy. Obvious facts about socialism are not discussed enough. Few people are willing to read 50-page studies like the CEA’s, and there has been very little media coverage of it—journalists or politicians who could summarize the CEA findings haven’t seen sufficient reason to do so or may themselves be among the uninformed advocates of socialism. That is too bad because the ignorant advocacy of socialism is currently a significant threat to our democracy. Socialism has existed in many forms which lie on a continuum, from the central planning nightmare of the USSR, to the Scandinavian democratic experiments of several decades ago. The idea that unites the various embodiments of socialism along that continuum is that economic freedom is counterproductive to the aspirations of humanity. It would be far better and fairer, socialists argue, for the state to distribute scarce resources rather than letting the market allocate goods and services by itself. Socialism seeks control of economic decisions, either through central planning or through expropriative taxation and regulation, in the interest of the common man. Socialism’s appeal has always been its false promise to create wealth better than capitalism can. Advocates of socialism promise great economic achievements, which they argue are worth the price of reduced individual economic liberty. It is worth remembering that Karl Marx regarded socialism as an economic necessity that would emerge out of the ashes of capitalism precisely because capitalism would fail to sustain wealth creation. Marx made many specific, and erroneous, predictions about capitalism, including its declining profitability and rising unemployment... https://economics21.org/socialism-opiate-corrupt-and-ignorant-calomiris/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRZek5tUXhaV05pWmpnMyIsInQiOiJ0Qjd6cE5WREZyUU80SWxcLzdhcEhacUx1Vmk0cW5CZzF6dXBzUHZ4MjhNZE1wYndnQ3VQNk9rVjF0RzVURE5sdWIxQStlV25zUlR5eWJHZ3BNV2w1endHM1pKNjdpVmlhREg3dU84NFVFVU5pODJ1NWtiRnNrOUdsSnpoMytaaTMifQ%3D%3D
by David M. Drucker
by Marc A. Thiessen
Republican Gov. Rick Scott leads Democratic Sen. scumbag-Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes in the Florida Senate race. A margin of victory that large has never be overturned in a recount. According to FairVote, the average vote shift in statewide general election recounts is a meager 282 votes. “The biggest swing came in Florida’s 2000 presidential election recount, when scumbag-Al Gore cut 1,247 votes off George W. Bush’s lead, ultimately not enough to flip the state to his column,” according to a FiveThirtyEight report on what FairVote found.
So even if Nelson were to swing 10 times as many votes in this recount as Gore did in 2000, he would still come up short. Democrats know that recounting the existing votes is unlikely to change the result. So Democrats have filed a series of lawsuits asking courts to change Florida elections laws after the fact. The result would be that they can count ineligible votes in the hope that these will provide the margin necessary to overcome Scott’s lead. For example, Florida statute mandates that, with the exception of overseas and military voters, vote-by-mail ballots are counted only if they are “received by the supervisor of elections not later than 7 p.m. on the day of the election.” But scumbag-Nelson has sued demanding that mail ballots that arrived after the 7 p.m. deadline to be counted as part of the recount.
Similarly, Florida law says mail and provisional ballots are counted only if the signatures on them match the signatures that elections offices have on record. If there is a signature mismatch, the voter is notified and can “complete and submit an affidavit in order to cure the vote-by-mail ballot until 5 p.m. on the day before the election” (emphasis added). But Democrats are asking a judge to throw that law out and count ballots with signatures that don’t match the voter signature on file.
Federal prosecutors are investigating charges that Florida Democratic Party officials urged voters to fix their ballots after Election Day, including evidence that they changed official state election documents to indicate that ballots could be returned after the polls had closed. Initial reports indicated this was limited to a handful of counties, but a new report in the Naples Daily News has uncovered emails showing that “Florida Democrats were organizing a broader statewide effort beyond those counties to give voters the altered forms” with the goal to “fix and submit as many absentee ballots as possible with the altered forms in hopes of later including them in vote totals if a judge ruled such ballots were allowed.”
Florida law also instructs the Department of State to “adopt specific rules … prescribing what constitutes a ‘clear indication on the ballot that the voter has made a definite choice.’” The Department of State has done so, providing clear standards for determining whether a voter intended to vote for a particular candidate. Now Democratic lawyers are asking a judge to order Florida to ignore this intent standard when reviewing “under votes,” so they can add ballots that do not qualify under Florida law.
While national Democrats sue in the courts to change election law after the election, local Democratic officials running the recount are accused of engaging in serious irregularities. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Democrat-leaning Broward County submitted vote totals that include ballots disqualified by the canvassing board, while Palm Beach was rebuked by a judge after it duplicated 650 ballots without submitting them to canvassing board.
There is also evidence that officials in Democrat-leaning Broward Country have been dragging their feet in carrying out the recount. Miami-Dade — the most populous county in the state — was halfway done with its entire recount by Monday morning and easily met the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline required by law. But by Monday evening, Broward County had not yet started its recount. And on Thursday, Palm Beach failed to meet the legal deadline.
These counties’ problems could have many different possible causes, including incompetence, or fraud, or both. But it’s fair to ask whether these Democratic counties are intentionally slow rolling the recount to delay final election results in the hopes that Democratic lawsuits will work and that a judge will allow them to count ineligible votes in violation of state law. As Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., explained, “That isn’t a strategy to win an election, that is a strategy to steal an election.”
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/59513?mailing_id=3873&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3873&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
Comments
Bonnie
thats right all ballots within 30 min. if some ballots are not within the 30 min then they should not be counted and the supervisor in charge of the their ballots in his or her county is in fault and should be removed. If Gaetz wan't allow to enter the room then others who are associated like lawyers should be also not allowed in.
FL LAW I BELIEVE SAYS ALL BALLOTS ARE TO BE COUNTED W/IN 30 MINS AFTER POLLS
CLOSE
MATT GAETZ WASN'T EVEN ALLOWED IN THAT IS SIMPLY WRONG. TIME TO FIGHT BACK B/C WE CANNOT B ON THE LOOSING END IN 2020 LK AT THE HORROR THAT WOULD AWAIT. K HARRIS; B SANDERS, C BOOKER, AND GOD KNOWS WHO ELSE HEAVEN HELP US THEN BOY.
HOW 2 COUNTIES COULD NOT DO THAT IS NOT BEYOND ME B/C THEY ARE DEMS. AMAZINGLY ALL VOTES THAT APPEAR ARE FOR THE DEMS