by Matt Vespa, Townhall:

It’s official. The Florida elections are heading into recount territory. Three top-tier races, governor, senate, and agriculture commissioner, will become the focus of a legal battle that could get nasty very quickly. Most of the attention is centered on the U.S. Senate race, where Republican Gov. Rick Scott declared victory over Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Yet, two of the most Democratic counties, Broward and Palm Beach, in the state are taking their time counting the ballots. For reference, the counties that were ravaged by Hurricane Michael have completed counting their ballots.

Two Democrat-heavy counties have been flagrantly violating the law for ~85 hours now and defied court orders and the media narrative has been “Republicans don’t want votes counted” https://t.co/8nvt58RaYC

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) 10 November 2018

We have no idea how many ballots are left, something that they should have told us on a regular basis per Florida law. These two counties are the problem children in Florida elections and yes, given their histories, and what has been alleged—it’s not insane to suggest that Democrats might be stealing the election.

From the archives (1998): “Citing ‘a pattern of fraudulent, intentional and criminal conduct’ in the casting of absentee ballots, a Florida judge voided Miami’s mayoral election today and ordered a new vote to be held in 60 days.” https://t.co/S0YUaiZd6K pic.twitter.com/s6UmTdTlH0

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) 9 November 2018

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— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) 10 November 2018

In Broward, elections supervisor Brenda Snipes once against proves that she’s total garbage at her job, not knowing how many ballots are left, mixing rejected provisional ballots with good ones, and getting slapped by the courts again for having a ballot counting operation that violated public records laws. Oh, and both counties have refused to obey the court orderthat they honor pubic records requests.

#Florida law requires counties report early voting & vote-by-mail within 30 minutes after polls close. 43 hours after polls closed 2 Democrat strongholds #BrowardCounty & #PalmBeachCounty are still counting & refusing to disclose how many ballots they have left to count. #Sayfie pic.twitter.com/ReXCaOzkZP

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) 8 November 2018

The court order was thanks to a legal action filed by Republicans. Gov. Rick Scott, with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, filed a lawsuit against the counties over the vote count delays—a lawsuit that Palm Beach County elections supervisor Susan Bucher idiotically said might be racist. Oh, and she also threatened reporters with arrest for…filming and photographing their public canvassing meeting.

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