Democrats attempt to steal election from Senate victor

Florida law says mail and provisional ballots are counted only if the signatures on them match the signatures that elections offices have on record. If there is a signature mismatch, the voter is notified and can “complete and submit an affidavit in order to cure the vote-bymail ballot until 5 p.m. on the day before the election.” But Democrats are asking a judge to throw that law out and count ballots with signatures that don’t match the voter signature on file.

Federal prosecutors are investigating charges that Florida Democratic Party officials urged voters to fix their ballots after Election Day, including evidence that they changed official state election documents to indicate that ballots could be returned after the polls had closed.

Initial reports indicated this was limited to a handful of counties, but a new report in the Naples Daily News has uncovered emails showing that “Florida Democrats were organizing a broader statewide effort beyond those counties to give voters the altered forms” with the goal to “fix and submit as many absentee ballots as possible with the altered forms in hopes of later including them in vote totals if a judge ruled such ballots were allowed.”

Florida law also instructs the Department of State to “adopt specific rules ... prescribing what constitutes a ‘clear indication on the ballot that the voter has made a definite choice.’” The Department of State has done so, providing clear standards for determining whether a voter intended to vote for a particular candidate. Now Democratic lawyers are asking a judge to order Florida to ignore this intent standard when reviewing “under votes,” so they can add ballots that do not qualify under Florida law.

While national Democrats sue in the courts to change election law after the election, local Democratic officials running the recount are accused of engaging in serious irregularities.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Democrat-leaning Broward County submitted vote totals that include ballots disqualified by the canvassing board, while Palm Beach County was rebuked by a judge after it duplicated 650 ballots without submitting them to canvassing board.

These counties’ problems could have many different possible causes, including incompetence, or fraud, or both.

But it’s fair to ask whether these Democratic counties are intentionally slow-rolling the recount to delay final election results in the hopes that Democratic lawsuits will work and that a judge will allow them to count ineligible votes in violation of state law.

As Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., explained, “That isn’t a strategy to win an election, that is a strategy to steal an election.”