Well, there goes the whole “count every vote” idea.
Florida–fucking America over since 2000.
So the election was a just for kicks.
Only in America is the concept of counting every vote considered detrimental to democracy. Hell, it’s considered almost as detrimental as the act of voting itself.
Fool me once. Fool me twice etc. So when does the boycott of Florida and its products start and what do they have to show to stop it?
It’s very simple. The fewer votes counted, the fewer fraudulent votes counted.
If we could get down to 15-minutes of total voting time, election-day only, in-person only, with fingerprint- and retinal-matching, we could make fraudulent voting as rare as a straight answer from KA Conway.
Void the result and hold another!
A Democratic idea… certainly not Republican when the are in front
So, i’m lost here.
Is the FL state-wide manual recount for senator and governor going forward over the weekend?
This judge has thrown up his hands said, from what I understand, that Fl has ignored the law and refused to update their equipment and process and so has decided to end this.
Nevermind that he has disenfranchised the voters , and failed to punish the those responsible like the govener who will now be elected to the Senate.
I fail to understand his position.
Not sure the Governor race was close enough, but the Senate was.
Statewide, its only the Senate and the Agriculture Commission that are within the threshold for a manual recount of over and under ballots.
There are some state legislative races also up, but they are not state wide.
Manual vote counting started today, runs through Sunday. I’ll be observing for the Dem Party tomorrow. Some crazy stuff they have to explain the in training! My understanding was the governor race is part of it.
So the recount, which was mandated by law for the purpose of clarity in elections, failed to meet an arbitrary deadline and therefore will be stopped before it is completed and any actual clarity can be achieved. The AP story is so bare bones I have no idea what is happening - did the judge give a reason?
Here is something from a VOX article
Under Florida state law, a machine recount is triggered if the margin of victory is equal to or less than 0.5 percent, while a manual recount is triggered if it’s less than 0.25 percent.
The machine recount is due at 3 pm on Thursday, but if the new margin is less than 0.25 percent, a manual recount will begin. Manual recounts are due at noon on Sunday, November 18. If counties cannot meet those deadlines, the state will adopt the first round of tallies, which was submitted last Saturday.
???
Nobody’s going to be seated until January, so the deadline really is arbitrary. There is time enough to count every single vote that was cast. No sitting judge anywhere is going to put himself in the position of challenging existing state law about vote counts.