Official tells Florida Democrats to expect recount in 2020

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

The Associated Press
Sat., June 8, 2019

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The new voter protection director for Florida Democrats told party activists on Saturday that they should assume there will be a recount during next year’s presidential election.

“We are going to be prepared,” Brandon Peters told a packed room of Democratic activists at the state party’s Leadership Blue 2019 meeting at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

Peters, who was hired by the state party last month, said there will be teams of volunteers trained in how to monitor county canvassing boards for recount problems around the state, should one take place in the 2020 presidential election.

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Peters said by July 2020 he hopes to have 15,000 lawyers and volunteers in place around the state to address any voter problems.

Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2019/06/08/official-tells-florida-democrats-to-expect-recount-in-2020.html

[sharedvalues]

1. 300,000 purged from rolls by FL GOP

The only reason the GOP “wins” in FL is voter suppression.
Bush should have lost in 2000
Rick Scott is illegitimate
DeSantis is illegitimate
Trump stole the FL vote in 2016 too.

They all would have lost easily if not for GOP voter suppression kicking Dems off the rolls and making t harder for especially black people to vote.

[Honeycombe8]

17. They can't purge me w/o a fight.

I have my voter registration card, a certified copy of my birth certificate, a valid driver's license, and proof I reside in the area. I won't be purged, and can't be legally purged. If they try it, I'll report it to the state Democratic Party and news organizations and anyone else I can think of. If I'm allowed to vote provisionally, I'll do that.

[sharedvalues]

26. It's not you, it's the 300,000 poor minority voters that agree with you

Elections are won or lost at the margins.
Purging other working class and/or minority voters is what allowed Bush, Trump, DeSantis, and Scott to steal their elections in FL.

[pat_k]

19. Bush did lose

The only thing the 5 black robbed thugs accomplished with their decision on 12/12/2000 was to render the election in Florida incomplete, and therefore, the electors appointed pursuant to it were illegally appointed under Florida State law. As Breyer, et al. made clear in their dissent, the ONLY lawful and moral response was for Congress to object to, and disallow those electors. They failed in fulfilling that duty.

If we want to protect ourselves, we should be getting declarations of intent from members of the House and Senate to do everything in their power to never allow electors appointed pursuant to an unfair, corrupted, and or otherwise unlawful state presidential election to be counted ever again.

[MontanaMama]

2. How about Florida use paper ballots

and take a week to count them? Florida is a shit show.

[ProudLib72]

9. In the land of the hanging chad?

Not likely, not after they've instituted more efficient means of cheating.

[Progressive Jones]

22. On many levels. nt

[DURHAM D]

3. Al Gore should be Volunteer #1

[democratisphere]

4. Florida is one hell of a corrupt state.

Maybe we could get some of the conman and conwoman pastors in Florida to deliver US from evil and rethuglicons.

[More_Cowbell]

5. A lot of Puerto Ricans moved there but didn't vote

We need to change that for the people who remain in Florida in 2020.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Yes, please. We should have an official recount in Florida every election. With outside auditors.

[BigmanPigman]

10. I vote for a third recount...

I do not trust them for a nanosecond.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Glad!

[SunSeeker]

8. K & R

[Perseus]

11. Everyone knows about the cheating, election after election

Why is it that Democrats do not prevent this from happening? I don't hear about Democrats putting some of their money to hire tech experts to prevent this, and more.

That is what is so infuriating.

[JudyM]

13. +100000000000000000000000000!

[mitch96]

18. "Everyone knows about the cheating, election after election"

Same reason tRump humpers in the face of facts that he is a mysognistic, lying delusional cheat they still will vote for him. He represents their "values".
Florida is mostly a red state so what ever the republican party wants to do is ok with the majority voters in Fla.. Until we can overwhelmingly VOTE THEM OUT....... no change..
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[Perseus]

12. "We are going to be prepared," to react?

It is always in "reactive" mode, they need to become "proactive", that is what France did during the Macron election, they were able to defeat the Russians when they tried to mess with their elections, why can't the DNC think in those terms?

Everyone knows that Bushh-2000 was total cheating, ballots were found in garbage cans, the so classed "butterfly" ballots were decided on a partisan level, Katherine Harris disenfranchised thousands and everyone just watched, no action against it...And I am sure it happened in 2016 as well, and before that, and it will happen in 2020 but the DNC "will be prepared" to sit and watch.

Going public after the fact does not work, the judges are all republicans, the supreme court is biased, proactive action must be put in place.

How about last year in Georgia? Everyone sat and watched while the Governor, who also controlled the elections did whatever he wanted, everyone saw him win by cheating, did anyone do anything about it? Who is the governor of Georgia?

[Honeycombe8]

16. It takes a Democratic Secretary of State and/or Governor to be legally proactive against crimes.nt

[ehrnst]

28. It sounds like you want to complain more than you want to know what is going on.

So, tell us, what "proactive action" will stop all that happened from happening before, if that's something they are falling down on?

What could Democrats have done that they did not do?

In particular, what could the DNC have done concerning the Georgia governor's race, since you seem to think that they are somehow responsible for that, too?

Now, tell us what France did that protected them, then let's talk about if that can be replicated in a much, much larger country that is much, much more diverse, and has far more media outlets.

[Lonestarblue]

14. Democrats in every state should prepare for election monitoring and recounts.

We already know that Republicans will cheat to win, and they’ll have Russia helping them again. There’s a reason the Russians hacked into so many states’ voter registration systems. They probably now have malware or a backdoor into the systems. Democrats need a massive campaign to encourage voters to check their registrations often and to actually go vote. Last year, I went online and verified my registration and then took a screen shot that showed it was current as of that date a few days before the election.

[Progressive Jones]

24. 2016 was really a "test balloon" for Russia. They'll be playing for keeps in 2020. nt

[Honeycombe8]

15. Good. Be prepared. Expect anything, even crimes. nt

[Bengus81]

20. Pretty bad when 1.5 YEARS before the election you already know...........

There will be the same GOP voter FRAUD. Maybe the GOP could get Kobach down there to monitor the elections.

[mcar]

21. I actually know this guy

He is a good Democrat. He's in an even redder, more rural county than mine.

I'm glad the FDP is paying attention to our rural counties.

[Progressive Jones]

23. This should be happening in any State that could be even remotely considered a Swing State. nt

[ck4829]

25. Kick

[lordsummerisle]

27. k&r n/t

[Rene]

29. Anyone involved with working with servers knows how easy it is

to switch to another url....work with a rogue vote-flipping program ...and switch back to the original server. Anyone monitoring screens cannot detect it happening.....you'd' need access to view the logs and see the URL'S.