Is anybody else so accustomed to people complaining about such stupid crap with regards to voter fraud that it feels odd to have an actual case of it? Oh, you mean this isn't about how it's too hard for black people to get IDs or how 500,000 dead people voted? Well, shit.
Regarding voter ID, I’m all for it. Things I’ve seen personally over the past two elections have convinced me it’s a good idea. But the only fair and practical way to implement it is if some government entity ensures that ID is provided to everyone or you extend the definition of ID to include student ID, library cards, maybe even utility bills. Restricting it to say drivers licenses would leave too many folks out in the cold. I’ve known numerous people who would have been denied the right to vote under those circumstances.
In Texas your concealed handgun license is a valid form of ID even in places where carrying is otherwise restricted, e.g. courthouses, voting stations, bars, schools, etc.
Ok, so here's what happened with these "fraudulent" votes: On election day, roughly 600 provisional ballots were cast in Broward County. All but 205 were rejected for legitimate reasons (weren't registered, were voting in the wrong district, etc). 205 however, had the same issue. When the voter swiped their ID, the automated system said "not registered," but when the poll workers called the central election office, the central office said "yep, they're registered, I can see it right here" (what an error free system you've implemented Florida). These individuals were instructed to cast provisional ballots. On election day those 205 ballots were removed from their envelopes, scanned, and counted in a separate pile from the main votes (so we know how many there were, and who they were cast for, but they have not yet been added to the main tally). After Republican lawyers complained, the canvassing board examined these provisional ballots and declared 20 of them to have mismatched signatures, and therefore be invalid. Anyone who's ever signed their name more than once knows that a mismatched signature is a bullshit standard to begin with. Because the ballots had already been opened and counted on election day, no one knows which 20 of the 205 "should" be excluded, because the signatures are on the envelopes, not the ballots themselves.
I'm going to guess this is going to end with more than a scandal over just a couple hundred provisional ballots, but this is seriously pathetic. The election was 5 days ago and these retards still can't sort anything out.
And they still don’t know how many more there are to count. How is that possible? The fact that the election supervisor was allowed to keep her job after being found by a court to violate election law in 2016 is absurd. The press and outside law enforcement are being stonewalled. And obviously not at all related, here’s who the county Sheriff hangs out with:
If you’re going to have sheriffs, they should be cops. Not bias politicians. But you don’t need them at all.
All in favor a constitutional amendment replacing all statewide Florida elections with a coinflip say aye.
Oh, I don't know. We just created a half dozen completely idiotic and utterly pointless departments. Maybe they can help count the ballots. Congratulations, Florida department of counter-terrorism. We found something for you to do!
By the way, just to beat a dead horse yet again, California is currently experiencing two of its most destructive fires ever, a month after the end of the normal wildfire season, and the reason for it is: climate change.
No doubting you at all, just curious. How do they know that a fire is related climate change rather than a lightening strike? Is it more regarding the conditions that led to it occurring and it’s spread (dry air, wind, etc.)?
Basically California has been slowly been getting warmer and dryer over the past 30 years which makes it more susceptible to wild fires. Yeah the cause of each individual fire is going to be a random event like a lightning strike, but climate change is why they’re seeing more of them and that they’re causing more damage.
In a nutshell, climate change isn’t the direct cause of these fires, but increases their frequency and severity. It doesn’t help that development in fire prone areas continues unabated.