Rick Scott claims fraud and seeks election investigation in Florida

Florida Governor Rick Scott has suggested "widespread fraud" and called on law enforcement to investigate two constituencies for their electoral practices, the Republican's main role in the US Senate race. having continued to shrink on Thursday night.

While Senator Bill Nelson's Senate fight with Senator Billard seemed to be heading for a recount, Scott repeatedly accused the Liberals of wanting to "steal" the election in Broward and Palm Beach counties. He called on election supervisors, Democrats Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher, of the Florida Law Enforcement Department to investigate how counties counted ballots.

"All Floridians should be worried about widespread fraud that could occur in Palm Beach and Broward counties," he said in a televised statement in front of the governor's palace in Tallahassee. The governor did not submit any concrete evidence of fraud, merely stating that the counties were the only two in the state where irregularities had been committed.

"Every day since the election, Broward's left wing activists have more and more ballots coming out of nowhere. We all know what's going on. Every person in Florida knows exactly what's going on. Their goal is to mysteriously continue to find more votes until elections are held as they wish. "

"Tonight, I'm asking the Florida Law Enforcement Department to immediately investigate this case," he added later. "No motley group of liberal activists or CD lawyers will be allowed to steal this election from the voters of this great state."

A spokesman for the Florida Law Enforcement Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but told reporters Thursday, the agency would investigate.

Florida law provides for an automatic recount if the margin between candidates is less than 0.5% of the total votes cast. If the margin is less than 0.25% of the votes cast, the law requires a manual recount. Saturday is the deadline for county councils to seek unofficial election results from the Florida Secretary of State.

Thursday, Scott and Nelson were separated by 0.18 percentage points. In the race for the governor, Republican Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum were separated by 0.44%.

"The goal here is to see that all votes in Florida are counted and counted accurately. Rick Scott's action seems to be politically motivated and born out of despair, "said Dan McLaughlin, a spokesman for Nelson, in a statement.

President Donald Trump also spoke with a tweet in favor of Scott on Thursday night, saying there was "another big corruption scandal" in Broward County.

David Becker, expert in electoral administration and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, tweeted that there was no reason to deny that civil servants were still counting votes.

"We are literally more than 50 hours away from the closing of the polls. There is still mail and ballots to be counted throughout the country, "he said in a Twitter message. "It's more important to do things right than to do them fast. Let election officials do their job. All accounts to date are unofficial and have no legal effect.

Scott's campaign and the National Committee of Republican Senators also continued Snipes and Bucher separately state court Thursday. He accused Snipes of violating the state's public record laws by failing to reveal the information on the counted ballots counted by Broward County and the outstanding ones. Scott and the Republicans requested an emergency hearing to force her to hand in the information.

Snipe has not publicly announced how many ballots his office still has to count, Politico said, while tens of thousands of new votes, including many postal ballots and postal ballots, are entered his office.

In the lawsuit against Bucher, Scott and the Republicans alleged that Palm Beach County election officials had not let party representatives properly monitor the vote count, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

This is not the first time that Snipes is at the center of the controversy. Earlier this year, a federal judge declared that she illegally destroyed ballots in a race at Congress 2016. His office was also sued for leaving a constitutional amendment out of the ballots. Broward was the last county in the state to publish its results.