And soon, trying to exclude votes cast by non-citizens could be construed as racist, because, in a shocking report culled directly from an unofficial transcript from the review of provisional ballots in Broward County, lawyers for Democratic candidates Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson – who narrowly lost their bids for governor and senator, respectively – can be heard trying to stop a ballot cast by a non-citizen from being excluded from the official count. The ballot review was held earlier this week, before Florida’s Secretary of State ordered the recount on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Michael Barnett, the chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, vouched for the validity of the transcript<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0the Federalist,<\/a>\u00a0which published the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n Barnett told The Federalist that several Republican lawyers overheard the discussion during a back and forth between the canvassing board and attorney\u2019s from the Gillum and Nelson campaigns.<\/p>\n “I would think this is something we could all agree on – that non-citizens shouldn\u2019t vote, but evidently that\u2019s not the case with Democrats,” Barnett said.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s really sad that we are having to deal with this in a close election. It just goes to show the depths they will go to in order to win.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The ballots were being reviewed after Broward County\u2019s results showed significantly fewer votes than other races on the ballot, 25,000 to be exact.<\/strong>\u00a0Election officials scrambled to add early in-person votes – including a “mystery” truckload of ballots – that, as fate would have it, increased the totals for Democrats.<\/p>\n Barnett said that Republicans are closely monitoring the recount as the canvassing boards review the ballots. “We want to make sure the Democrats don\u2019t steal this election.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Gillum, who conceded to his Republican opponent Ron DeSantis on Tuesday night, has decided to withdraw his concession and fight to “count every vote.”<\/p>\n I am replacing my earlier concession with an unapologetic and uncompromised call to count every vote.<\/p>\n — Andrew Gillum (@AndrewGillum) November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018.11.10transcript.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
<\/a><\/p>\n\n