Rick Scott repeats unfounded claim of 2018 voter fraud

Rick Scott repeats unfounded claim of 2018 voter fraud

Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is again complaining he was the victim of voter fraud without offering a shred of proof.

In a 30-minute rant touching on a range of issues at the National Conservatism Convention (NatCon), Scott repeated his allegation that election officials in Florida “illegally counted 95,000 ballots after election night” in 2018 to keep former Democratic U.S. Bill Nelson in office.

“Democrats know they can’t win with their crazy, wacky ideas, so they want to set up a way that they can steal elections, and we’ve had to fight every day to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he told a packed ballroom at the JW Marriott Turnberry in Aventura.

“When I won in 2018, I won by 57,000 v...

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