2018 mid-term

[HuskerNation1]

good lord....believe the right wing propaganda if you must...but there are reps of both parties in there watching the vote count.   tere is also a police gaurd in there also watching for that and to protect the vote counters from the stirred up protestors outside who don't want the votes counted.   if there is democratic fraud going on it has to have republican and police consent for it to happen and i highly doubt there is republican consent....and doubt the police would condone it either.  

The point is that this fraud was going to be allowed if this was not brought up. The fact that Snipes has done this in the past and was continuing to do such things should cause all leading Dem voices to demand her resignation.  

 

[BigRedBuster]

You cannot trust Snipes and the Dems trying to steal the election. She has done the same in the past, destroying ballots or creating new votes to favor the Dem candidate.  Mueller needs to investigate the real collusion happening with Dem votes.

It truly is amazing how you feed off of the propaganda the Whitehouse and Trump put out. 

 

[commando]

The point is that this fraud was going to be allowed if this was not brought up. The fact that Snipes has done this in the past and was continuing to do such things should cause all leading Dem voices to demand her resignation.  

BULLs#!t!!!    there was no fraud happening.  the observers from both parties are always in there counting and confirming the votes.   and there is always security there but it's been bumped up because of the protesters there that were incited by the president and the right wing media. 

FDLE has said that because workers from the secretary of state’s office, who have been observing the election in Broward County, have not reported any fraud. The secretary of state said again Sunday that there was no evidence of fraud.

 

[HuskerNation1]

It truly is amazing how you feed off of the propaganda the Whitehouse and Trump put out. 

Umm...when Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are fired up over what is going on, you know its a bigger deal than just something Trump is saying. Sorry.

 

[Landlord]

Okay let me get this straight - so far, the only substantial thing we're worried about is 20 or so votes that may or may not be invalid not because of explicit fraud but because of procedural mistakes? 

 

[schriznoeder]

Umm... what is Rick Scott doing there?

 

[VectorVictor]

Interesting article re: Bay County, FL Voter Fraud...by Republicans:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article221536055.html

...the top elections official in heavily Republican Bay County said he allowed some displaced voters to cast ballots by email or fax after Hurricane Michael hit the Panhandle, even though there is no provision for it in state law. Bay County Supervisor of Elections Mark Andersen said Monday that 11 ballots were accepted by email and 147 ballots were domestically faxed in, though state statute does not allow emailed ballots and faxing in ballots is only permitted for military and voters overseas.

So it appears Trump may be on to something about there being voter fraud in Florida after all...

...though in all seriousness, it only encompasses ~200 ballots. Considering who these folks were and what happened, I'm inclined to let them ride and someone just needs to thoroughly chastise those responsible for putting out erroneous instructions. 

 

[commando]

Umm... what is Rick Scott doing there?

while the vote isn't official yet....it sure looks like he has won.   recounts usually won't find very many mistakes so it's a pretty safe bet he has won.  

 

[commando]

lol

 

[ZRod]

Isn't it so interesting that Republicans are up in arms about "supposed fraud" with the results from a county in Florida that has leaned heavily Democratic in presidential and gubernatorial races for over 20 years. A county where both Democrats and Independents out number Republicans. 

 

[BigRedBuster]

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[commando]

good job ohio gerrymandering

 

[Mierin]

good job ohio gerrymandering

That is probably the biggest problem with gerrymandering. The party with the majority in the state legislature can create the maps for the state legislature elections. So if they get the majority by 1 person right before the redrawing they can increase their own majority and also greatly improve their own re-election chances by making more favorable maps. This will always benefit lower population areas because it’s easier to gerrymander a highly populated area. Pretty hard to come up with multiple ways to group together a bunch of small towns and farms to a certan # of people. But a place like Omaha can be cut up a million different ways and it’s easier to pretend you didn’t purposely draw it to give the Republicans extra state senators.

Democrats need to find a way to reach people in these areas if for no other reason than to overcome the cheating.

 

[Danny Bateman]

 That is probably the biggest problem with gerrymandering. The party with the majority in the state legislature can create the maps for the state legislature elections. So if they get the majority by 1 person right before the redrawing they can increase their own majority and also greatly improve their own re-election chances by making more favorable maps. This will always benefit lower population areas because it’s easier to gerrymander a highly populated area. Pretty hard to come up with multiple ways to group together a bunch of small towns and farms to a certan # of people. But a place like Omaha can be cut up a million different ways and it’s easier to pretend you didn’t purposely draw it to give the Republicans extra state senators.

  

Democrats need to find a way to reach people in these areas if for no other reason than to overcome the cheating.

FWIW Ohio passed a new redistricting law recently, though it's a very odd law with some very interesting stipulations. How the map is drawn depends on whether the right conditions are met:

1. Three-fifths of legislature approves of the map, including 1/2 of the minority members.
   
2. Special commission including governor, state auditor, secretary of state, and four legislators including two from minority party. Majority of members must approve of map, including the minority party members.
   
3. Three-fifths of legislature approves of map, including 1/3 of minority members.
   
4. Majority of party may adopt whatever they want without input from minority party, but map only exists for 4 years at a time.
   
5.  
   

Like I said, really weird law that basically does nothing but kick the can down the road and allows shorter term extreme partisan gerrymandered if that's what the majority party wants.

 

[Mierin]

FWIW Ohio passed a new redistricting law recently, though it's a very odd law with some very interesting stipulations. How the map is drawn depends on whether the right conditions are met:

1. Three-fifths of legislature approves of the map, including 1/2 of the minority members.
   
2. Special commission including governor, state auditor, secretary of state, and four legislators including two from minority party. Majority of members must approve of map, including the minority party members.
   
3. Three-fifths of legislature approves of map, including 1/3 of minority members.
   
4. Majority of party may adopt whatever they want without input from minority party, but map only exists for 4 years at a time.
   
5.  
   

Like I said, really weird law that basically does nothing but kick the can down the road and allows shorter term extreme partisan gerrymandered if that's what the majority party wants.

Does the map they have now follow this law? Or is it just for any new map that's created?

They could just do this with a computer.