Peter SchorschFebruary 24, 2021
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Tag: U.S. Senate election
Peter SchorschFebruary 24, 2021
Scott PowersNovember 16, 2018
3min254
Gov. Rick Scott‘s Republican U.S. Senate campaign wants Broward County’s late-transmitted machine recount results to count in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. Scott’s campaign recount attorney Tim Cerio has fired off a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner asking for confirmation that Detzner will accept the Broward County numbers even though they arrived after Thursday’s […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018
3min263
Arguing that Palm Beach County’s problems with machines breaking down during the machine recount this week, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson‘s campaign has sued in state court seeking to force a recount of all half-million ballots there. Palm Beach County is not the main hope for Nelson’s campaign as the state moves to the ordered […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018
3min402
Republican Gov. Rick Scott is declaring victory again after the machine recount of last week’s U.S. Senate election appears to have increase his lead, and he called again on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to succeed Nelson of course is doing no such thing, as his campaign has been counting all along on the next […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 20183min249
Republican Gov. Rick Scott‘s U.S. Senate campaign has pulled in more than $1.4 million to support his legal and public relations battles over Florida’s vote recounts in that race. His campaign released that with a scathing comparison with his opponent in the contested election, Demoratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, and pledged that “Scott will continue […]
Scott PowersNovember 15, 2018
2min313
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 […]
Scott PowersNovember 13, 2018
3min408
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 […]
Scott PowersNovember 13, 2018
8min314
Saying there’s no practical reason for the statutory deadlines that counties face to complete machine and hand recounts of last week’s election, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson’s lead vote-recount attorney said Monday he believes they should be given the time they need even beyond the deadlines. Marc Elias told reporters that Florida’s law was not created […]
Scott PowersNovember 12, 2018
3min334
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson doesn’t want his opponent Republican Gov. Rick Scott to have anything to do with the recount of their election. On Monday Nelson called on Scott to recuse himself from “any role” in Florida’s recount process as the supervisors of elections across the state begin a mandatory machine recount of more than […]
Scott PowersNovember 9, 2018
6min384
Making his first appearance since the election – and doing so only by video-download, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused his opponent Republican Gov. Rick Scott of abusing power to stop votes from being counted, and Nelson vowed to not let that happen. In a video statement downloaded via satellite or through YouTube, Nelson charged […]