My comments about the elections process in Lake County, FL.
This year I sat all day at two early voting sites (downtown Tavares) and the final day at the Clermont voting site.
However, draconian new rules from the Supt. of Elections completely prohibited poll-watchers from being close enough to see actual voter ID's, signatures, etc. So, as a retired internal auditor who has audited cash management systems, I can say I could not tell you that proper ID verification was done. I could not verify personally that IDs, signatures, and printed ballots were valid.
One of the major duties of a poll watcher is to challenge improper voter id approvals, but we were prevented from doing that by Supt. of elections Alan Hays. They claimed the distance required was to ensure privacy, but I smell demands made by Democrats to use the privacy requirement to prevent any questioning of ID validations. I don't think that may have happened at Tavares or Clermont, but we have some precincts where ID's might not be validated but not detected by poll-watchers due to the distance requirement. If I had been at Groveland, based upon prior visits, I would have been concerned due to chaos that can exist at some voting sites.
The staff at the three times I visited were all quite efficient and mostly friendly, even though we could not talk to them either to understand some processes. We could only talk to the Supervisory Clerk who had to be tracked down for questions. (But all were responsive).
So, we should be happy we don't have reports of 3 am deliveries of extra ballots AFTER election day at vote counting sites like some other states.
AND, TRUMP won FLORIDA, which is great vs becoming Venezuela. Insiders are writing that he has won the nation but won't be certified until all the Democrat Steal the Vote legal wrangling is done in Mid-December.
That's my opinion.
Anti-Trump folks should move to Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, or other Communist countries like I have to live in the environment they want for the US. The second picture is a food line in Venezuela, which is what the Democrats want so they can control the economy and food supply and have the power to do it.
Vance Jochim
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