Florida Paper Lays Blame at Ron DeSantis’ Feet for Election Problem Caused by Dems – Opinion

Democrats screw one thing up, so it have to be Ron DeSantis’ fault.

There isn’t a scarcity of media distemper in Florida in the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, and the South Florida papers are particularly aggressive. Whereas probably much less rabid than the Miami Herald, its sister publication The Solar-Sentinel is often barking together with them. The newest sees the editorial employees resorting to knee-jerk outrage in an op-ed, whereas it’s clearly effectively off the mark.

At subject is a particular election not too long ago held for a congressional seat, and the outcome has been considerably controversial. In what was one of many closest elections in state historical past, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick got here out forward of former commissioner Dale Holness for the twentieth congressional district nomination in Broward County. Whereas Holness is a little bit of a controversial determine himself, what’s at subject is the razor-thin outcome, and the truth of some excellent ballots not being delivered.

This may very well be seen as an issue that underscores the problems which have been talked about with mail-in voting, one thing the Democrats and the press have been enthusiastically in favor of constructing everlasting. McCormick took the nomination by solely 5 votes. What’s at subject is that it was found that tons of of mail-in ballots had remained undelivered at a regional mail facility. The Solar-Sentinel editorial board wrote:

These 286 ballots didn’t attain the Broward elections workplace by 7 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 2, as state legislation requires, despite the fact that each one was postmarked by Nov. 1 or earlier. As a result of Holness led the 11-candidate subject in Broward with almost 30% of the vote, the percentages are excessive that he misplaced a seat in Congress not on the polls, however in a again room of a mail sorting middle in Opa-locka in Northwest Miami-Dade County, and that is unnecessary in any way.

There was little clarification from the native postal service authorities as to how this occurred, and the elections officers in Broward say that they had been stymied within the try and go to the postal location and get some solutions as to how this performed out. There are many questions relating to this that want answering, however in its zeal to discover a villain the Solar-Sentinel editorial board shouldn’t be trying domestically – they forged the blame about 450 miles away, in Tallahassee. The Solar-Sentinel continued:

DeSantis’ chief elections officer, Secretary of State Laurel Lee, ought to demand an entire report on the misplaced ballots from the Postal Service, however largely all we hear on this topic from Tallahassee is silence. That’s as a result of Republicans don’t actually need each vote to rely.

This remark evokes many reactions; laughter, confusion, eye-rolling, and extra. The editors resort to the previous trope of Republicans wanting to limit voting rights, a drained cliche that usually will get spoken whereas insisting voter integrity is all the time of the best high quality. Add to this the perpetual bile within the throats of journalists that DeSantis conjures up, and the need accountable him is almost computerized.

The issue: the information. This election was between Democrat candidates. The Broward County Supervisor of Elections is a Democrat. To counsel DeSantis has a vested curiosity on this specific election is laughable, and to deal with him over the native officers who operated the election is sheer denial, and to attempt casting blame on the Capital as an alternative of the postal service is the nadir of ridiculousness. 

That is the state of a number of the native media. Every time an issue may be noticed, their most popular demon of DeSantis is only a default transfer. The embarrassment right here is that this can’t be handed off on a biased reporter; this editorial got here from the paper’s board, and thus reveals the bias on this native information organ. It additionally reveals yet one more entry on the rising record of media hits on DeSantis which have didn’t land.