Friday, 16 November 2018

Florida orders first ever statewide hand-recounts as legal fights continue Following a five-day machine recount of the more than 8.3 million votes cast in the Nov. 6 elections

quote [ The order gives canvassing boards in the state's 67 counties three days to pore over thousands of ballots that were rejected by machines because of "overvotes" — a voter appears to have chosen more than one candidate in a race — or "undervotes," in which a voter appears to have skipped a race altogether. With the help of state guidelines, the canvassing boards, which are allowed to enlist the help of volunteers, will try to determine how these voters intended to vote. ]

This comes down to was this a machine error or was this just the case of a badly constructed ballot form...a hand count should settle it.
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[by bbqkink@1:10amGMT]

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steele said @ 1:43am GMT on 16th Nov
Welp, Florida is fucked then. 2/3 required for raising taxes will kill our public services and no way is DeSantis going to do shit with all our environmental troubles.
hellboy said @ 2:16am GMT on 16th Nov
The irony of Florida's deep denial of global warming is staggering.
steele said @ 2:20am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:1 Sad]
Not even just climate change. Red tide from agricultural run off, our natural aquifers are running out, apparently there's just an endless flood of oil spills out in the gulf. The whole state needs to evacuated and condemned at this point.
Fish said @ 3:50am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-5 Boring]
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hellboy said @ 2:15am GMT on 16th Nov
You'd think after the fucking fiasco of 2000 that they'd have their shit together on elections. And then you'd remember that this is Florida we're talking about.
alloy said @ 2:27am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:2]
Florida is run by republicans, making elections unattractive and tiresome processes is to their advantage.
ComposerNate said @ 10:53am GMT on 16th Nov
Keep counting
hellboy said @ 8:27pm GMT on 16th Nov
I can't find it but I recently saw a comment from someone that said the Republican position was: "if after all our gerrymandering and voter suppression the Democrats somehow still won, they MUST have cheated!!!"
bbqkink said @ 3:53am GMT on 16th Nov
I am afraid this is only going to be a moral victory as she is going to come up a little short, but it is a victory none the less. Hey folks a black woman just came within an eyelash of winning the govonors chair in Georgia...things are a changin.

Stacey Abrams wins major victory as judge rules all votes must be counted
bbqkink said @ 11:48pm GMT on 16th Nov
bbqkink said[1] @ 4:39am GMT on 16th Nov
In an unrelated note:

Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing

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WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing — a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and have major implications for those who publish government secrets.

The disclosure came in a filing in a case unrelated to Assange. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer, urging a judge to keep the matter sealed, wrote "due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged." Later, Dwyer wrote the charges would "need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested."

Dwyer is also assigned to the WikiLeaks case. People familiar with the matter said what Dwyer was disclosing was true, but unintentional.

Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia said, “The court filing was made in error. That was not the intended name for this filing.”

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.

Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia have long been investigating Assange, and in the Trump administration had begun taking a second look at whether to charge members of the WikiLeaks organization for the 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents which the anti-secrecy group published. Investigators also had explored whether WikiLeaks could face criminal liability for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cyber-tools.

Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has also exploring the publication by WikiLeaks of emails from the Democratic National Committee and the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John D. Podesta. Officials have alleged the emails were hacked by Russian spies and transferred to WikiLeaks.

Mueller has also been exploring, among other things, communications between the group and associates of President Trump, including political operative Roger Stone and commentator and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi.

In July, his office charged 12 Russian military spies with conspiring to hack DNC computers, steal the organization's data and publish the files in an effort to disrupt the election and referred in an indictment to WikiLeaks, described only as "Organization 1," as the platform the Russians used to release the stolen emails.

A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment.

It was not immediately clear what charges Assange would face. In the past, prosecutors had contemplated pursuing a case involving conspiracy, theft of government property or violating the Espionage Act. But whether to charge the WikiLeaks founder was hardly a foregone conclusion. In the Obama administration, the Justice Department had concluded that pursuing Assange would be akin to prosecuting a news organization. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, though, had taken a more aggressive stance and vowed to crack down on all government leaks.

Barry J. Pollack, one of Assange's attorneys, said, "The only thing more irresponsible than charging a person for publishing truthful information would be to put in a public filing information that clearly was not intended for the public and without any notice to Mr. Assange. Obviously, I have no idea if he has actually been charged or for what, but the notion that the federal criminal charges could be brought based on the publication of truthful information is an incredibly dangerous precedent to set."

The filing in the Eastern District of Virginia came on August 22, in a case that combines national security and sex trafficking. Seitu Sulayman Kokayi, 29, was charged with enticing a 15-year-old girl to have sex with him and send him pornographic images of herself. But he was detained in part, according to the court filing, because he "has a substantial interest in terrorist acts."

His father-in-law, according to the filing, has been convicted of terrorist acts. The case involves previously classified information, according to government filings, and prosecutors plan to use information obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Kokayi was indicted last week and is set to be arraigned Friday morning.

The case had been sealed until early September, though by itself it attracted little notice. On Thursday evening, Seamus Hughes, the deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University who is known for scrubbing court filings, joked about the apparent error on Twitter — which first brought it to the attention of reporters.

Even if he is charged, Assange's coming to the United States to face trial is no sure thing. Since June 2012, Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy, afraid that if he steps outside he will be arrested.

When he first sought asylum in the embassy, he was facing possible extradition to Sweden in a sex crimes case. He has argued that case was a pretext for what he predicted would be his arrest and extradition to the United States.

In the years since, the Swedish case has been closed, but Assange has said he cannot risk leaving the embassy because the U.S. would attempt to have him arrested and extradited for disclosures of U.S. government secrets. Throughout that time, the U.S. has refused to say whether there are any sealed charges against Assange.

If Assange were to leave the embassy and be arrested by British authorities, he would likely still fight extradition in the British courts.


Don't forget Friday is indictment day fro the Feds.

This should tell you the shit is about to hit the fan.

Mueller Promises Judge More Details on Manafort Case in 10 Days

The filing came a day after Mueller and lawyers for Rick Gates, Manafort’s former right-hand man who pleaded guilty and testified against his ex-boss, told Jackson that he is cooperating with prosecutors on “several ongoing investigations.” They said they will file another status report on Jan. 15.

Just sayin tomorrow is Friday.
bbqkink said @ 6:46am GMT on 16th Nov
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0000 said @ 1:17am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-5 Boring]
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hellboy said @ 1:33am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:2 Underrated]
1. The vast majority of the caravan (several thousand people) are still about a thousand miles away. A couple hundred early arrivals doesn't mean they all suddenly got there.

2. Even when they get here they're still not a serious threat.

3. Asking for asylum is perfectly legal.

4. Go fuck your racist self.
Fish said @ 4:01am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-4 Boring]
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rylex said @ 4:14am GMT on 16th Nov
Your use of the prog card proves 2 things.

You are a staunch moronic conservative.

And you are a cuck.
Fish said @ 12:55pm GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-4 Boring]
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0000 said @ 1:59am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-5 Boring]
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Menchi said @ 6:00am GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-5 Trollfood]
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0000 said @ 1:18pm GMT on 16th Nov [Score:-5 Boring]
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