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A new POTENTIAL name emerges as the 2nd FL county election office where Russians hacked voter rolls: Sumter

It’s a mega-Republican county home to The Villages retirement community 1/4
2/4 The other FL county where hackers gained access to a voter-reg database was likely Washington

There was speculation that the 2nd county was a midsized county on the East Coast

Sumter doesn’t match that description. But it sure might be the 2nd

politi.co/2Q8unE2
3/4 Here’s a great @MikeGrunwald piece on just how blood red Republican The Villages community is in Sumter County

politi.co/2Qej4Kz
Standard disclaimer: these are alleged voter roll hacks, not vote tabulation hacks. Officials say no votes or registrations were changed by hackers in 2016 (or 2018)

I know the speculation & conspiracy theories will not likely by quelled by this disclaimer but here it is anyway
I might start adding this to all related Twitter threads.

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Marc Caputo
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Fresh off failing to effectively stop Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, the FBI tells FL Gov. DeSantis that 2 counties' voter reg systems were hacked that year.

Which ones? They won't say.

That's right: Florida voters have no right to learn this info. And there's more 1/4
Despite DeSantis & the FBI saying no votes were changed & there was nothing more, should we believe them?

Remember: if a person's voter reg is messed with, it can prevent him from voting. Did this happen? We don't know because the government won't tell the public the truth 2/4
When Sen Bill Nelson rightly said in 2018 that Russians had penetrated some FL counties elections depts, the FBI refused to confirm it. His opponent Gov Rick Scott (whose appointee ran the state elections division) & the GOP mocked Nelson as "confused"

Scott won. Nelson lost
3/4
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Marc Caputo
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Something very strange happened in Broward County.
I've never seen a top-of-the-ticket U.S. Senate race get fewer votes than EVERY OTHER statewide election.

So more voters wanted to weigh in on governor AND attorney general AND state CFO AND agriculture commissioner?
How can the US Senate race have MORE votes statewide than the three Florida Cabinet races but FEWER votes in Broward?

The likely culprits: either poor ballot design (Sen race was tucked below instructions near the bottom corner of the first of many pages) or tabulation error
Though there are issues in Broward, we can't say it cost Sen Nelson the race

Nelson's trailing by 17,344 votes (.021%) statewide

BUT IF the Brow gov race totals were applied to the Sen race but vote share remained constant, Nelson trails by 7,483 (0.09%)

So this is big
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Marc Caputo
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In Broward County, Miramar Elementary School teacher Lakeisha Sorey came across a box labeled “Provisional ballots” left behind at the school from Election Day & she’s concerned it might have votes. She didn’t look in the box because she didn’t want to tamper with it
Sorey: “I wasn’t touching it. I don’t want anybody to say I tampered with anything. But I want to make sure that if there are votes in there that they’re counted”

“It makes me question everything that’s going on—just the fact that I want every1’s vote 2B counted”
Sorey said she spotted the box before leaving school about 4 p.m. She spoke to her principal who advised her not to touch it. She also spoke later to a state rep who referred her to me
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