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Jim RosicaNovember 15, 2018

The Rick Scott for Senate campaign is calling on incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson “to demand the immediate resignation” of Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo. Jackie Schutz Zeckman, Scott’s campaign manager, sent an email to news media Thursday. “News reports yesterday and today revealed that the Florida Democrat Party (sic) engaged in an illegal scheme to alter election forms and […]

Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018

The Orange County vote canvassing board has completed its machine recounts of the 2018 election with very little change in the final tabulations of contested races. Orange is the first of Florida’s seven big, urban counties — which include Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Duval — to report the machine-recount numbers. It’s among […]

Jim RosicaNovember 15, 2018

Updated Thursday — Judge Walker has ordered Florida elections officials to allow “voters who have been belatedly notified they have submitted a mismatched-signature ballot” to fix them by 5 p.m. Saturday. Click here to read more about the order. Wednesday’s story is below. The full 34-page order is at the bottom of this article. __ […]

Ryan NicolNovember 15, 2018

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Gov. Rick Scott announced Wednesday the appointment of Hung Mai to the Tampa Port Authority. Mai’s term begins this week and will run until Nov. 15, 2019. The newest member of the Port Authority is President and CEO of H.T. Mai Inc., a civil engineering and consulting firm. He previously relocated from Vietnam as a […]

Staff ReportsNovember 14, 2018

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has waded into partisan waters increasingly during Florida’s triple recount, as one might expect from one of Florida’s leading Republicans. However, it wasn’t until Wednesday morning that he offered comment from his official perch. “I’m not against the recount. A recount is mandated by law and should happen. The recount should happen, […]

Staff ReportsNovember 14, 2018

Federal prosecutors are examining date changes on “cure affidavits,” forms used to change information on ballots lacking such. The Department of State, reports POLITICO Florida, has “concerns” that instructions put forth in four counties said these cure affidavits could be returned by 5 p.m. Thursday. The law requires that these be handled by Monday before the […]

Jim RosicaNovember 14, 2018

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Gov. Rick Scott will sit out next Tuesday’s meeting of the state’s Elections Canvassing Commission, his attorney told a federal judge on Wednesday. The news came during a conference call with Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in a case brought by the League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause Florida. They wanted Scott […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 14, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott’s senatorial campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee are suing the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections office for not allowing a designated representative for each group into the room where ballots are being recounted. The parties filed the suit Tuesday in the Circuit Court of the 13th Judicial Circuit in Hillsborough County. The […]

Scott PowersNovember 13, 2018

Florida’s 67 counties should not have to sweat it out to meet Thursday’s and Sunday’s deadlines to recount last week’s contested statewide elections and instead should be allowed more time if they need it, argues a new federal lawsuit filed Tuesdeay by the U.S. Senate campaign of Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. The suit, filed […]

Scott PowersNovember 13, 2018

After Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and his team suggested there may be good reasons to extend recount deadlines if counties need more time to sort the U.S. Senate election, Republican Gov. Rick Scott‘s team said not-so-fast. Speaking for Scott, Republican U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney insisted Tuesday that the recounts must proceed by law, a […]

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Using coded language, Rick Scott calls for Terrie Rizzo to quit as head of Florida Democrats

Orange County machine recount finished with no discernible changes

Judge allows late voter fixes for bad signature ballots

Hung Mai appointed to Tampa Port Authority

Marco Rubio dials down tone in official comment on Florida recount

Report: Feds looking into changed dates on election docs

Rick Scott won’t take part in election certification, lawyer says

Rick Scott files recount lawsuit against Hillsborough elections supervisor

Bill Nelson lawsuit asks federal court to waive recount deadline

Rick Scott’s team has no interest in seeing recount deadlines extended