Too stupid to vote ...

Once again, Florida is the epicenter of controversy over counting votes. 

And once again, Broward and Palm Beach counties are demonstrating how stupid they are.  How incompetent the hacks supervising the elections there are.  Plus, how stupid the voters in those counties apparently still are. 

It was bad enough when Bush/Gore proved voters there couldn’t understand the concept of a punch card to vote. The instructions then were crystal clear – you must punch out the hole next to the candidate you’re voting for, and only one for each office. 

But did those voters get it? Of course not.  They’re morons.  They’re also overwhelmingly Democrats. That’s not to say all Democrats are morons, but I see a correlation there, at least here in the Sunshine State.    

Then Democrats flew in a horde of lawyers to argue what constituted a punched-out hole.  Was a dimpled mark good enough to indicate what the voter wanted? A hanging chad? What about voters who tentatively punched one hole and then punched another too?

To avoid this nonsense again the state decided to only use paper ballots going forward. Again the instructions – which down here have to be in multiple languages – were crystal clear:  You needed to fill in the circle next to your choice of candidate. And only one per candidate.  That’s it.

Of course that’s too complicated, apparently, for the morons in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Instead of doing what everyone has done on multiple-choice exams and forms for decades, some voters there drew arrows, drew an X, crossed out their first choice, etc.  All of which stymied the machines designed to read the paper ballots electronically. 

About 3.7 percent more voters in Broward voted for governor than for anyone in the U.S. Senate race on the same ballot.  That’s a pretty dramatic undervote, well outside the norm, which also is suspicious. Now some on the left are blaming the design of the ballot itself for that. Guess who designed the ballot? Bingo, the same Democrat hacks running elections there.     

When it came to absentee ballots – always an area ripe for fraud – a lot of voters in those counties couldn’t follow instructions on those, either. Even though those were in multiple languages. According to the hacks running elections there, some “forgot” to sign their ballots or their signatures didn’t remotely match what was on file. Some put a different return address on their ballot than the one they used to register to vote.  Some entered the date they completed the ballot where they were supposed to put their birthdate.  A lot seemed to have ignored that their ballot had to be postmarked by a certain date to be accepted and counted. 

These people are clearly too stupid to vote.  Or perhaps those stuffing the ballot box are. 

I believe every legal vote should be counted.  I also believe no vote cast improperly or by non-citizens should be counted. That includes mail-in ballots postmarked long after the deadlines for sending them in.  And if the address you use, or your signature doesn’t match what’s on file, those votes shouldn’t be counted at worst and investigated for identity theft and fraud at best.    

The bozos running elections in those two counties know the rules. They should, since they’ve been chastised by the courts many times in the past for election shenanigans. 

Yet even now they are defying recent court orders to at least disclose how many people voted in their counties.  Today is November 12th; by Florida law they were required to give a total count 30 minutes after polls closed on November 6th.  And here we are. They still refuse to tell us.  Over 70,000 “new” votes have mysteriously appeared in Broward County since the polls closed.  Thousands more have suddenly appeared in Palm Beach County since then, too.

Huh? 

Now, if you’re not all that familiar with Florida, you might think maybe the irregularities and problems in Broward and Palm Beach counties are because these are poor, backwards places.  They’re not.  They are two of the most affluent and well-educated counties in the state.  Broward has the second largest population of any county in the state. There’s no excuse for this.

But they are overwhelmingly Democrat.  And like too many Democrats everywhere, they feel they shouldn’t be held to the same rules as everyone else. Laws, what laws? Rules, what rules?  In fact they are suing to count all the mail-in ballots postmarked and received after the official deadlines.  They also want to count mail-in ballots that somehow got “damaged” and local polling staff – also Democrats – thoughtfully just filled in new ballots as replacements. Plus they want to count the ballots “interpreted” by local polling staff to decide a voter’s intention. 

I’m not making this up. That’s how bad it is.

For the life of me I can’t decide who is more stupid – the voters there, the hacks in charge in Broward and Palm Beach counties, or state officials who seem powerless to stop this craziness.  

Right now we're going through mandatory recounts for the Senate seat, the race for governor, and the race for the State Agriculture Commissioner.    

I suspect at some point Federal courts will intervene, perhaps even the SCOTUS. Then Democrats will whine and complain that the SCOTUS “stole” the election.   

It’s just par for the course in the two most heavily Democrat counties in the state.