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OK, let’s ease off on the Flori-Duh pedal please. The somewhat inaccurate refrain heard over and over across the news-sphere over the past few days is, “Florida is having trouble counting votes again.” Wrong. Florida is not having trouble counting votes.
Broward and Palm Beach counties are “having trouble” counting votes. And these two counties have been where the problems have popped up in cycle after cycle.
These new “Floridians,” many of whom are quite nice prosecution stipulates, tend to bring their crackpot voting habits with them.
They’re often not nimble enough to see the connection between their left politics and the reasons why they felt the need, other than avoiding cold winters, to abandon their original homes for Florida. As a result Democrats more often than not carry these counties in the 70% range
This is why Republicans are concerned that the blue wave that didn’t wash over the county Election Day and night seems to be materializing in these counties after the election.
After Election Day, Broward County alone found NINETY-THREE THOUSAND more votes still to be counted. Figure that with 70% going to Dems and you can see how Scott’s election night lead of 56K votes over Nelson has dropped to about 12.5K votes faster than you can say Al Franken
The one-point lead Scott enjoyed Tuesday night, at last count, was at .15 percent, well within the quarter of one percent margin calling for a hand recount. By statute such a count is required to be completed by Nov. 18.
But it’s hard to find anyone familiar with these matters who believe it can be completed by then, especially as both sides have teams of lawyers ready to file more suits than you’d find at Men’s Wearhouse.
It remains a possibility that the race between DeSantis and Gillum for gov may be over by Thursday, the deadline for the machine recount made necessary by the fact that DeSantis’s lead of almost 34k votes falls below the 0.5 of one percent margin that triggers a machine recount.
