So is this where we are now?

Thought elections were decided by The People not by who has the best lawyers.

Clinton campaign lawyer with ties to Trump dossier leads Democrat recount effort in Florida

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Democrat lawyer said he came to Florida to 'win' the election.

The Clinton campaign's top lawyer who was behind the controversial anti-Trump dossier is spearheading the recount effort to keep Floridian Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate, and is already facing accusations he is trying to "steal" the seat from under the noses of the Republicans.

Marc Elias, of Seattle-based law firm Perkins Coie, retained opposition research firm Fusion GPS which hired former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the dossier which included salacious and unverified allegations about President Trump's visit to Russia before he was elected to the White House.

Now Nelson, the Democrat incumbent since 2001, has turned to Elias with the hotly contested Florida Senate race looking more likely to be decided after a recount.

His announcement as the lead recount lawyer for Senator Nelson and intervention into the unfolding Florida controversy prompted President Trump to single him out in a tweet Friday.

As soon as Democrats sent their best Election stealing lawyer, Marc Elias, to Broward County they miraculously started finding Democrat votes. Don’t worry, Florida - I am sending much better lawyers to expose the FRAUD!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018

BRENDA SNIPES, BROWARD ELECTIONS OFFICIAL AT CENTER OF BALLOT STORM, HAS HISTORY OF CONTROVERSY

Elias has provided legal counsel to several high profile Democrats, as well as the DNC and many of the party's political committees, over his career.

He worked as general counsel for both John Kerry's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2004 as well as Hillary Clinton's in 2016.

Both he and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained private research firm Fusion GPS in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, The Washington Post reported last year.

Attorney Marc Elias is spearheading the recount effort to keep Floridian Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate. (David Jolkovski for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Republican lawmakers have raised questions about how the FBI used the dossier in its probe of Russian meddling during the 2016 presidential election. Last September, CNN reported that he accompanied John Podesta, the former Clinton campaign chairman, to a closed-door interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee to answer questions about Fusion GPS.

Last month, Fox News reported that Michael Sussman, another Perkins Coie lawyer working with the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign, contacted FBI general counsel James Baker in late 2016 and provided documents for the Russia probe as federal investigators prepared a surveillance warrant for Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Sussmann’s contact with Baker suggests another connection between the early stages of the FBI’s Russia probe and those working with the DNC and Clinton campaign, according to the report.

Elias has now returned to the public eye to represent the Democrats in their Florida battle.

Speaking Thursday night, outgoing Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the GOP Senate nominee locked in the battle for the Senate seat with Nelson, said that “rampant fraud” in Palm Beach and Broward Counties, where Democrats outnumber Republicans, may be to blame for why his lead has shrunk since the polls closed Tuesday.

Scott is suing the Broward’s election boss election Brenda Snipes over the vote tallying. He is also suing Palm Beach election supervisor Susan Bucher.

But Elias said he would aggressively examine and address reports of irregularities, according to Fox 35 Orlando.

"We’re doing this not just because it’s automatic, but we’re doing it to win,” Elias said, according to the station. "A significant number of ballots have not yet been counted and, because of the size of Florida, we believe the results of the election are unknown and require a recount."

ACCUSATIONS FLY OVER BROWARD COUNTY BALLOT SHENANIGANS: MYSTERY TRUCK DELIVERIES, SLOW COUNTING AND MORE

"Let's be clear: When Elias says 'win,' he means 'steal'," Scott's campaign said, according to NPR.

Scott pointed to several examples in the past when Elias's Democratic clients led elections by razor-thin margins, claiming there was no precedent for successful recounts. These included Al Franken's Senate victory in Minnesota in 2008, where he won by 225 votes, one of the closest races in history.

Scott said Elias has argued that recounts only really happen when the number of votes separating the candidates are in their dozens or hundreds.

‘Now he’s down here to try to steal the election and to try to thwart the will of the voters of Florida,” Scott said Thursday.

TRUMP SNARKS 'BLAME THE RUSSIANS' OVER SLOW VOTE COUNT IN FLORIDA, GEORGIA

So is this where we are now?

Settlement reached in tight Arizona Senate vote count

Went to bed election night around 12:45 am. My feeling was although we lost the House it could have been a lot worse. I was sorry to see Walker lose in Wisconsin and John James in Michigan as well as some others. But at least I could take to bed solace in knowing 4 key Republicans Scott, Kemp, McSally, and DeSantis were all declared winners. Now they're all in jeopardy.

If you look back 20 years or so and want to talk about voter fraud the vast majority of it falls directly in the lap of Democrats. The fact Democrats want to do away with voter ID is all you need to know.

Remember this?

A blatant example of electioneering INSIDE a polling place in Philadelphia where they set up a voting booth right IN FRONT OF an Obama mural:

Local Republicans went to court to have a judge order a mural of President Obama covered up at the Ben Franklin Elementary School polling place in the Northeast Philadelphia.

(They did a marvelous job of covering it up)

Eric Holder refused to prosecute the Black Panthers.

(Probably because he's a member)

Even after reports of court-appointed GOP poll watchers being forcibly removed in some precincts in Philadelphia and Ohio and were replaced with Democrats.

Surely, you recall Melowese Richardson, a Democratic poll worker in the critical battleground state of Ohio who voted for Barry 5 times. She was charged with voter fraud then let go by a liberal judge.

And now this:

I warned Gov. Scott about Broward’s election swamp |Tim Canova

Caught On Video: Concerned citizen sees ballots being transported in private vehicles & transferred to rented truck on Election night. This violates all chain of custody requirements for paper ballots. Were the ballots destroyed & replaced by set of fake ballots? Investigate now! pic.twitter.com/GUPZnz7Gny

— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018

Go on Bing and type in [Democratic voter fraud]...its their specialty.

PHOENIX — Arizona Republicans and Democrats agreed Friday to give rural voters an extra chance to fix problems with their ballots in the count of the state's tight Senate race, resolving a GOP lawsuit that sought to stop urban voters from using those very same procedures.

The settlement was technically between Republicans and the state's county recorders, but Democrats agreed to it as it was announced in a Phoenix courtroom Friday afternoon. Arizona's 14 counties now have until Nov. 14 to address the issue.

The Republican lawsuit alleged that the state's county recorders don't follow a uniform standard for allowing voters to address problems with their mail-in ballots, and that Maricopa and Pima counties improperly allow the fixes for up to five days after Election Day.

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has jumped into a slight lead over Republican Martha McSally in the midst of the slow vote count.

Four local Republican parties filed the lawsuit Wednesday night challenging the state's two biggest counties for allowing voters to help resolve problems with their mail-in ballot signatures after Election Day. If the signature on the voter registration doesn't match that on the sealed envelope, both Maricopa and Pima County allow voters to help them fix, or "cure" it, up to five days after Election Day.

Many other counties only allow voters to cure until polls close on Election Day. Now, all will follow the standard set by Maricopa, Pima and two other rural counties that allow for post-Election Day cures.

Only a few thousand votes would be affected by the issue, but every one counts in the razor-close U.S. Senate race.

At a brief hearing Thursday, a Maricopa County official said only about 5,600 ballots are at affected in her county and the rate is similar in the 14 smaller counties. More than 2.3 million votes were cast statewide.

The political overtones of the lawsuit were unmistakable. On Thursday, Sinema jumped into a minuscule lead of about 9,000 out of 1.9 million votes counted after trailing since Tuesday. Her lead came from the two counties singled out by Republicans in their lawsuit, Maricopa and Pima Counties.

On Friday, Republicans escalated their attacks on Democrats, claiming they were trying to disenfranchise rural voters -- even though Democrats had little do with how the rural counties chose to count ballots. Those counties are predominantly run by Republicans. Democrats, in turn, said the GOP was trying to nullify cast ballots.

The race remained too close to call Friday with more than 400,000 ballots still uncounted. Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes said counting may continue until Nov. 15. "We know there's urgency out there, but we want to get it right, not quick," he said.

Arizona is notoriously slow at tallying ballots even though about 75 percent of votes are cast by mail. Each of those ballots must go through a laborious verification process.

Settlement reached in tight Arizona Senate vote count

Who is Brenda Snipes?

Brenda Snipes, Broward elections official at center of ballot storm, has history of controversy

After reading this I can't fathom why she wasn't fired a long time ago...not to mentioned jailed! 

She's as dirty as they come. Take a hard look at this bitch. From a personal standpoint does anyone honestly believe she EVER voted Republican in her life?  Also the impetus she uses to justify her actions. 

Broward County Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda Snipes is yet again at the center of an election scandal.. (Carline Jean/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes is at the center of the explosive Florida ballot-counting battle, with the state's Senate and gubernatorial elections on the line — but it's hardly her first voting controversy.

“She has had a horrible history … and all of a sudden they’re finding votes out of nowhere," President Trump, referring to Snipes, told reporters Friday.

Thank you @marcorubio for helping to expose the potential corruption going on with respect to Election Theft in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The WORLD is now watching closely!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018

Outgoing Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the GOP Senate nominee locked in a tight and bitter battle for the lead against incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, accused Democrats of conducting a coordinated effort to "steal" elections in a campaign of possibly "rampant fraud," in a lawsuit Thursday.

Razor-thin margins in Florida's bitter Senate and gubernatorial races are raising the specter of possible recounts, potentially prolonging two of the most closely watched contests of the nation's midterm elections. A recount is mandatory if the winning candidate's margin is less than 0.5 percentage points when the first unofficial count is verified Saturday by Florida's secretary of state, according to state law.

In an emergency complaint, Scott accused Snipes of being "unwilling to disclose records revealing how many electors voted, how many ballots have been canvassed and how many ballots remain to be canvassed," and charged that the uncertainty "raises substantial concerns about the validity of the election process."

More than 50 percent of voters in the county are registered Democrats, making it the largest Democratic county in Florida, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

Snipes said she didn't know how many ballots remain to be counted, but all were being processed. She also did not know how many provisional, military and mismarked ballots need to be counted. Her department's website said ballots cast on Election Day have been counted.

GOP SENATE CANDIDATE RICK SCOTT FILES BOMBSHELL LAWSUITS ACCUSING DEM FLORIDA ELECTION OFFICIALS OF TRYING TO 'STEAL THE ELECTION'

Snipes, who has held her office since 2003, is no stranger to controversy. Earlier this year, Scott's administration said it was monitoring her office after a judge ruled in May the county broke federal law by destroying ballots in Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's 2016 Democratic primary race against Tim Canova, Politico reported.

Snipes claimed the issue had been "blown out of proportion."

Broward County Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda C. Snipes is no stranger to election controversy. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

"Broward is nitpicked to the bone. Other places have the same problems, different problems. It’s just that they are not spotlighted like we are," she told the Miami Herald in October.

In August, a judge sided with the Florida GOP in its challenge of how the county handled absentee ballots. Republicans claimed Snipes' office was opening ballots in private, preventing people from challenging if they were properly cast, according to Politico.

And then in 2016, Broward County violated the law when it posted early voting results online before polls even closed, the Miami Herald reported.

The error was made by a young employee of an outside company hired by the county to tally the election results and a lawsuit against Snipes' office over the incident was "unsuccessful," according to the Miami Herald. Snipes also won a lawsuit that same year after being challenged for leaving off an amendment regarding medical marijuana on some mail-in ballots.

In 2004, her office had to scramble to send out new absentee ballots after it said some 58,000 voters did not receive them despite requesting them, the Sun-Sentinel reported at the time.

There were problems with absentee ballots this year, too. Multiple people said they did not receive absentee ballots or got them too late to submit them, according to the Miami Herald. Some ballots also had duplicate pages, voters said.

"This is consistent. It happens every election. Every election there is a snafu of some type every time," Benjamin Bennett, a former Broward elections inspector, alleged.

Snipes is also the subject of a lawsuit, filed in August by the American Civil Rights Union before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which questions Snipes' handling of potentially ineligible voters.

Broward was also criticized this year for the design of the ballot. The Senate race was displayed on the bottom left corner, below the instructions. Some 24,000 cast a vote for governor, displayed at the top of the ballot, but not Senate, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

This election, Scott has heavily criticized Broward County's handling of ballots.

"On election night, Broward County said there were 634,000 votes cast. At 1 a.m. today, there were 695,700 ballots cast on election day. At 2:30 p.m. today, the number was up to 707,223 ballots cast on Election Day. And we just learned that the number has increased to 712,840 ballots cast on Election Day. In Palm Beach County, there are 15,000 new votes found since election night," he said Thursday.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, too, unleashed a barrage of broadsides against Snipes and pointed to the "slow drip" of tens of thousands of additional ballots that were reported throughout the day Thursday, most of which were favorable to several Democratic candidates. Rubio said those late disclosures violated Florida election law, which necessitates that mail-in and early voting ballots be counted within 30 minutes of polls closing.

"Bay County was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago, yet managed to count votes & submit timely results," a fiery Rubio wrote on Twitter. "Yet over 41 hours after polls closed #Broward elections office is still counting votes?"

Broward County election officials did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment Friday morning.

Who is Brenda Snipes?

Three Republicans who were declared winners are now in jeopardy

Suddenly piles of uncounted votes have been discovered. Never mind its Friday and these 'undiscovered votes' were supposed to be counted Tuesday. 

Adding to the chaos of ballot counting in Broward County, a teacher 

found a container labeled ‘Provisional Ballot Box’ in a storage area 

of her elementary school on Thursday

So this could suggest two scenarios...well three actually.

1. This is Broward County a Democratic stronghold. So this could be boxes of 'backup Democratic votes' in the event Scott and DeSantis won.

2. The boxes contain Republicans votes that someone forgot to throw in the incinerator.

3. The third scenario... the people involved in this should be fired on the spot preceding their court date.

PS: The Democrats gained 30 seats in the House and as far as I know none is being contested. A little strange don't you think?

Three Republicans who were declared winners are now in jeopardy

Trump could use one of these

Worried About Someone Spying on You? This Gadget Finds Hidden Cameras in Any Room

Finding a hidden camera in your hotel, Airbnb, or dressing room is a horrifying experience that no one should go through. While it doesn't happen every day, there have been enough recent cases to raise alarm. In late October, a couple on a Carnival cruise reportedly found a camera in their bedroom, and several hotel and rental home guests have been secretly recorded in the last month as well.

Spy Associates, a maker of surveillance and privacy protection products, has designed a product that will help put worried travelers' minds at ease. The company's SpyFinder Pro Hidden Camera Detector uses LED strobe lights to ferret out the reflective surfaces of various kinds of cameras. The company says the gadget works even when cameras are undetectable to the human eye, and even when they're turned off or non-functioning.

The company recently launched the product on Kickstarter, and it has already well exceeded its $10,000 goal. The battery-powered device is recommended for frequent travelers or people with privacy concerns at work or at home.

"You won't believe how small hidden cameras are these days," the company says in its Kickstarter campaign. "Often no bigger than a pinhole, these tiny spy cameras are concealed inside everyday objects such as clocks, glasses, lamps, picture frames, USB chargers, keychains, desktop fans, outlets, smoke detectors, DVD players, fake water bottles, air fresheners, and so much more."

The SpyFinder Pro is small enough to fit in your pocket and easy to use. Simply look through the viewfinder while pushing the button on top and peering around the room. If there's a camera, the area it's hidden in will start blinking through the viewfinder. There are three different LED settings, depending on the size of the room and type of surface. For example, a low-intensity setting should be used in a bathroom with mirrors to prevent false reflections.

Anyone who pledges $198 by November 24 will receive the SpyFinder Pro at a $50 discount. The product will be delivered (with free shipping to U.S.-based customers) this December. Once the fundraising campaign ends, it will be available on SpyAssociates.com for $248.

Trump could use one of these