Florida rep. Anthony Sabatini (an anti-vaxxer & “Mar-A-Lago sycophant”) seeks “forensic audit” of “Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach & Orange counties,” all “Democratic Party strongholds” His list “notably doesn't include his own county.” 1/ orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives…
Note: I don’t trust Florida’s results either, especially Miami Dade. Florida’s official audits are not good. But the GOP always acts in bad faith and an unofficial partisan audit is concerning. And God knows what they mean by “forensic audit.” 2/
It is also concerning that Sabatini wants to look only at the presidential race. The SAFE Act wld have required robust manual audits of all federal races (not just the presidential), but the GOP blocked it. 3/ axios.com/gop-senator-el…
I wrote this about concerns with Florida elections. There are legitimate concerns. 4/ link.medium.com/3yvuZKvidib
Some thoughts on poll-defying results out of Miami Dade. 5/ 
Note that at least some of these counties destroyed their ballot images. There is a pending lawsuit about this destruction. The Florida Democratic Party is a co-plaintiff. It was filed before the election & spearheaded by Audit USA. 6/ drive.google.com/file/d/1Oy23Co…
Note that the supervisor of elections in Miami Dade is a Republican who was appointed by the Republican who defied the polls to win the House Dist. 36 race. @TheDemocrats shld respond to Sabatini’s move by demanding a full manual recount of that race by experienced auditors. 7/
In August 2019, as reported by Kim Zetter Miami-Dade was busted for connecting its county central tabulator (used for compiling all precinct totals) to the internet (and leaving it connected). 8/ vice.com/en/article/3kx…
Again, Miami Dade is a Democratic stronghold with a Republican supervisor of elections. 9/
If Ds respond to Sabatini by defending the integrity of Florida’s internet-connected elections, I will tear my hair out. They shld scrutinize the cherry picking and the type of “audit” sought, but they must NOT pretend to know that Florida elections are clean. 10/
If anything, Ds shld use this as an opportunity to examine their poll-defying losses in the state. 11/
Another notable absence from Sabatini’s list is Seminole county. 12/
Ds shld also use this as an oppty to improve Florida’s crappy audit & recount laws (they are mostly just re-scans), to get modems removed from the state’s voting systems, & to obtain bipartisan condemnation of the destruction of ballot images by Miami Dade, Palm Beach, etc. 13/
In 2018, CAP gave Florida an F grade re election security. An F. Don’t blow it, Democrats, with a knee-jerk response to Sabatini. TY. 14/ americanprogress.org/issues/democra…
15/ An F.
16/ I haven’t confirmed this, but it is worth looking into.
https://twitter.com/smittypoet/status/1323965471176167426
17/ Seems Sabatini is part of the Matt Gaetz frat pack.
21/ Sabatini plans to run for CD7, which is mostly Seminole county, another county that Sabatini does not want to audit.
22/ Roger Stone endorses Sabatini. americanindependent.com/gop-candidate-…
24/ Sabatini received $7500 from Joel Greenberg, but it’s not clear what he did for the money. orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-joe…
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