Remember Christine Jennings, the Florida Congressional candidate against whom the Republican Party spent $58 million on robo calls? The people who received such calls about Jennings were misled by the calls’ content and thought that they were being warned about her by her own political party. They learned differently only if they listened to the entire call, which most of them did not. But when they hung up, they would be called again. And again. Most people, of course, did not want to listen to the entire call.
In Florida’s 13th District, Jennings lost by under 380 votes. In Sarasota County, 18,000 votes did not register on the voting machines, making matters even worse.
Today, it was announced that a Leon County judge has turned down Jennings’ request to access the secret software that operates the voting machines in the 13th District of Florida. Just as bad, House Democrats announced they would do nothing to obstruct the seating of the district’s new Congressman, Vern Buchanan. The judge said that Jennings’ experts relied on conjecture and speculation, and did not provide “credible evidence” that warranted the candidate’s inspecting the source code used for the voting machine software.
