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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Overheating machines complicate Florida’s recount
By TERRY SPENCER
and GARY FINEOUT
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE,
Fla. — Florida’s election
recount drama is intensifying
as lawyers return to court and
tallying machines break down
ahead of a Thursday deadline
to complete reviews of the
Senate and governor races.
Much of the trouble cen-
ters on the Democratic strong-
hold of Palm Beach County,
where tallying machines have
overheated. That’s caused
mismatched results with the
recount of 174,000 early vot-
ing ballots, forcing workers to
go back and redo their work
with no time to spare.
A mechanic was flown in
to fix the problems, but “we
don’t have a lot of assurances,”
Palm Beach County Elections
Supervisor Susan Bucher said
Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, lawyers for
Democrats planned to ask a
federal judge today to set aside
the state law mandating that
mailed-in votes be thrown out
if the signature on the enve-
lope doesn’t match the signa-
ture on file.
There are now multiple
lawsuits piling up in a Tal-
lahassee federal court chal-
lenging everything from the
rules used for recounts to Gov.
Scott’s role in supervising
the state office that oversees
elections.
U.S. District Judge Mark
Walker, citing a well-known
“Star Trek” episode, said
during a hearing today that
“I feel a little bit like Captain
Kirk in the episode with the
Tribbles where they start to
multiply.”
The developments are fuel-
ing frustrations among Dem-
ocrats and Republicans as the
recount unfolds more than a
week after Election Day. Dem-
ocrats have urged state offi-
cials to do whatever it takes
to make sure every vote is
counted. Republicans, includ-
ing President Donald Trump,
have argued without evidence
that voter fraud threatens to
steal races from the GOP.
As it all plays out, the
Republican candidates for
governor and Senate, Ron
DeSantis and Rick Scott, hold
the narrowest of leads over
their Democratic counter-
parts, Andrew Gillum and Bill
Nelson.
Scott was in Washington
D.C. while the court battles
raged on. He stood at Senate
AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
A Broward County elections employee prepares to load a
machine as ballots are counted.
Majority Leader Mitch McCo-
nnell’s left shoulder today
when the Kentucky Repub-
lican welcomed GOP sena-
tors who will take their seats
in January when the new Con-
gress is sworn in.
Scott did not reply to a
question about whether he
contends there was fraud in the
election.
In South Florida, dozens
of workers keep feeding bal-
lots into counting machines at
the Broward and Palm Beach
County elections centers.
Much like feeding documents
into photocopiers, they’ve
been placing stacks into feed-
ers that run through several
ballots per second. Then they
grab another stack and do it
again.
Trump has called on Dem-
ocratic Nelson to admit that he
lost his re-election bid.
“When will Bill Nelson
concede in Florida?” the pres-
ident tweeted Tuesday. “The
characters running Broward
and Palm Beach voting will
not be able to ‘find’ enough
votes, too much spotlight on
them now!”
Presidents have historically
sought to rise above partisan
dramas surrounding election
irregularities. Former Presi-
dent Barack Obama wasn’t
so publicly involved when a
recount and legal process in
the 2008 election delayed a
Democrat taking a Minne-
sota Senate seat until July
2009. Former President Bill
Clinton struck a quieter tone
during the 2000 presidential
recount, which also centered
on Florida.
But this Florida recount
has been personal for Trump.
He aggressively campaigned
in the state, putting his finger
on the scales of the Repub-
lican gubernatorial primary
by endorsing DeSantis. After
Election Day, Trump’s aides
pointed to the GOP’s seeming
success in the state as a valida-
tion that the president’s path to
re-election remained clear — a
narrative that has grown hazier
as the outcomes have become
less certain.
White House spokes-
woman Mercedes Schlapp
said Tuesday the president
“obviously has his opinion” on
the recount.
“It’s been incredibly frus-
trating to watch,” she said.
State law requires a
machine recount in races
where the margin is less than
0.5 percentage points. In the
Senate race, Scott’s lead over
Nelson was 0.14 percentage
points. In the governor’s con-
test, unofficial results showed
DeSantis ahead of Gillum by
0.41 percentage points.
Once the machine recount
is complete, a hand recount
will be ordered in any race
where the difference is 0.25
percentage points or less,
meaning it could take even
longer to complete the review
of the Senate race if the differ-
ence remains narrow.
If the Senate race does go
to a hand recount, the dead-
line for counties to finish is
Sunday. But two of the pend-
ing four lawsuits ask that a fed-
eral judge delay the deadlines
so that all counties can finish
processing the crush of ballots.
Marc Elias, an attorney for
Nelson, argued that there’s no
need to rush, since the winner
of the Nelson-Scott race won’t
be sworn into office until
January.
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
President Trump mulling
a wide-ranging shake-up
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is weighing an
administration-wide shake-up as he looks to prepare his White
House for divided government, but it is unclear who is going and
who is staying.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was thought to
be out as soon as this week, but she is now likely to remain in
the post for a longer period because there is no obvious succes-
sor in place.
Trump has soured on Nielsen and White House chief of
staff John Kelly, in part over frustration that his administration
is not doing more to address what he has called a crisis at the
U.S.-Mexico border. But the scope of the contemplated changes
is far broader, as Trump gears up for a wave of Democratic over-
sight requests and to devote more effort to his own re-election
campaign.
Trump is also discussing replacing Kelly with Vice President
Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers. Kelly, a retired Marine
general, has been credited with bringing order and process to a
chaotic West Wing, but he has fallen out of favor with the pres-
ident as well as presidential daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-
law Jared Kushner.
Ayers, a seasoned campaign operative, would restore a polit-
ical mindset to the role, but he faces stiff opposition from some
corners of the West Wing, with some aides lobbying Trump
directly against the move.
Other changes are afoot, as Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are being discussed for
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replacement. And in an extraordinary move Tuesday, first lady
Melania Trump’s office called publicly for the firing of Trump’s
deputy national security adviser, Mira Ricardel.
Authorities: Prosecuting Ohio
massacre case could last years
WAVERLY, Ohio — Prosecuting an Ohio family of four
arrested in the gruesome slayings of eight people from another
family could take years to conclude, a county prosecutor said as
the first break in the more than 2-year-old case was announced.
Tuesday’s announcement marked the culmination of a mas-
sive investigative effort that began after seven adults and a teen-
age boy were found shot in the head at four separate homes in
April 2016. The killings terrified local residents and spawned
rumors that it was a drug hit, but prosecutors suggested the attack
had stemmed from a custody dispute.
The investigation is one of the most complicated and exten-
sive in state history, with enormous numbers of witnesses and
a huge amount of evidence, said Pike County Prosecutor Rob
Junk.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said a grand jury
indicted the four members of the Wagner family on aggravated
murder charges. Police arrested George “Billy” Wagner III, 47;
his wife, 48-year-old Angela Wagner; and his sons George Wag-
ner, 27, and Edward “Jake” Wagner, 26. They could be sentenced
to death if convicted.
DeWine gave scant detail about why the victims were killed,
but said the custody of a young child played a role. Edward Wag-
ner was the long-time former boyfriend of 19-year-old Hanna
Rhoden, one of the eight victims, and shared custody of their
daughter at the time of the massacre.
Israeli defense minister resigns
over Gaza cease-fire deal
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister abruptly resigned
today in protest over a cease-fire reached with Gaza militants, in
a move that rocked the Israeli political scene and seemed likely to
bring about early elections.
Avigdor Lieberman said the cease-fire amounted to “surrender
to terrorism” after two days of heavy fighting, and that he could
no longer serve a government that endorsed it. Lieberman had
demanded a far stronger Israeli response to the most intense round
of rocket fire against Israel since a 50-day war in 2014, but appeared
to have been overruled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
His resignation delivers a major blow to Netanyahu’s coalition
government and sparked immediate calls for early elections. Lieb-
erman said he hoped that in the coming days a date would be set for
a new vote. The opposition parties joined his call.
The government still has a narrow one-seat majority in the
Knesset without Lieberman’s nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu faction,
but is unlikely to survive until the next elections, currently set for
November 2019.
Netanyahu had come under heavy criticism for agreeing to the
cease-fire, especially from his own political base and in rocket-bat-
tered towns in southern Israel that are typically strongholds of his
ruling Likud Party.
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