On Valentine’s Day, 2018, Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Parkland, Florida high school.

On July 25, 2018, Cruz, inmate 18-1958, registered to vote.

The father of one of the slain students, Andrew Pollack, is outraged that “despicable Democrats” are trying to “steal this election” – likely referring to the craziness in the state at the moment (more on that below).

I'm sick to my stomach. 18-1958 murdered 17 students & staff, including my daughter Meadow. Yet in July, Broward Sheriff @ScottJIsrael let people into the jail to get him & other animals registered to vote.The Despicable Democrats have no shame.Can't let them steal this election. pic.twitter.com/qWisidEpek

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— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) November 10, 2018

This election would have been my beautiful Meadow's 1st election, but she wasn't able to vote because 18-1958 murdered her during the Parkland shooting.

If she can’t vote because of that monster, why should he be allowed to register to vote? Shame on Sheriff Israel & SOE Snipes! https://t.co/TBu2iyamT8

— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) November 10, 2018

Parkland is a part of Broward County.

Soon to be ex-Florida Governor Rick Scott seemingly pulled off a major upset by defeating incumbent Democrat Senator Bill Nelson on election night.

But now, are Broward County election officials trying to steal the victory from Scott?

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) doesn’t like what he sees.

Check this out…

Long but IMPORTANT THREAT ON ELECTIONS IN #FLORIDA.#BayCounty was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago,yet managed to count votes & submit timely results.

Yet over 41 hours after polls closed #Broward elections office is still counting votes? #Sayfie

1/6

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Broward supervisor:
– says she doesn’t know how many ballots are left to be counted; &
– Isn’t reporting hourly or regularly,but rather releasing thousands of additional votes,often in the overnight hours,that are chipping away at GOP leads

2/6 #Sayfie

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law:

A court found they improperly handled votes by mail:https://t.co/NOE6qdbWly

Court found they destroyed ballots in 2016 in violation of state & federal law:https://t.co/ywP8qE46J5 #Sayfie

3/6

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

Now democrat lawyers are descending on #Florida. They have been very clear they aren’t here to make sure every vote is counted.

– They are here to change the results of election; &
– #Broward is where they plan to do it.#Sayfie

4/6

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

A U.S. Senate seat & a statewide cabinet officer are now potentially in the hands of an elections supervisor with a history of incompetence & of blatant violations of state & federal laws.

Read Here: https://t.co/empQvOOgEb

5/6#Sayfie

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

#Broward election supervisors ongoing violation of #Florida law requiring timely reporting isn’t just annoying incompetence. It has opened the door for lawyers to come here & try to steal a seat in the U.S. Senate & Florida Cabinet
#Sayfie

6/6

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

A citizen captured video of people transferring ballots in a rented truck.

The huge problem is the lack of a chain of custody.

Caught On Video: Concerned citizen sees ballots being transported in private vehicles & transferred to rented truck on Election night. This violates all chain of custody requirements for paper ballots. Were the ballots destroyed & replaced by set of fake ballots? Investigate now! pic.twitter.com/GUPZnz7Gny

— Tim Canova (@Tim_Canova) November 8, 2018

In Broward County, Miramar Elementary School teacher Lakeisha Sorey came across a box labeled “Provisional ballots” left behind at the school from Election Day & she’s concerned it might have votes. She didn’t look in the box because she didn’t want to tamper with it pic.twitter.com/x8WOa8tfKz

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) November 8, 2018

Another video:

Florida is going to a recount.

From The Hill:

Three statewide races in Florida are heading for recounts after a key deadline for county election officials to submit unofficial vote tallies came and went Saturday.

The first round of machine recounts, which must be completed by Thursday, sets up a bitter fight to the finish in Florida’s races for Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner.

Here’s the deal:

Florida update. All 67 counties have now reported, and we have an unofficial vote tally. As it stands, DeSantis leads Gillum by 33,684, and Scott leads Nelson by 12,562. That will precipitate an automatic recount for DeSantis, and a manual recount for Scott. (1)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

There are now two things left to do statewide: First, count yet-to-arrive overseas/military ballots; second, proceed to those mandatory recounts. All being equal, neither step looks as if it'll be enough for either Gillum or Nelson. (2)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Around 20,000 overseas/military ballots have yet to be returned. Deadline for their return is the 16th. In reality, a lot of these will never be returned, will arrive too late, or will be rejected. (3)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

For the sake of argument, though, let's assume they're all returned—every last one. From what I can gather, we’re looking at ~5,000 military ballots, and then ~15,000 others from around the state. (4)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Given that voters with no party also vote, the best we can do is apply known military registration rates to military data, and apply the results in each county thus far to the county data. If we do this, we get a net increase for both Nelson and Gillum of ~1600 votes. (5)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

That would yield a DeSantis lead of ~32,000, and a Scott lead of ~11,000. Which would require the recounts to flip, *net*, 16,000 votes to Gillum and 5,500 votes to Nelson. (6)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Remember, that’s a generous estimate because we’re assuming every single outstanding overseas ballot comes in. But, for the sake of argument, let’s make it *more* generous, and assume these votes are twice as Democratic as has been the case thus far. Let's make it ~3,200. (7)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Even in that generous scenario, DeSantis keeps a lead of 30,484, while Scott keeps a lead of 9,362. That means Gillum would need 15,242 votes to flip, and Nelson would need 4,681. That seems unlikely—although nothing is impossible. (8)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Which brings us, finally, to Marc Elias's theory that the machines in Broward have undercounted the Senate line on the ballot by around 25,000 ballots. I doubt this—and Broward says it's not correct—but, arguendo, let's add it to our previous assumptions. Then what? (9)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

If we subtract the number of votes for Senate in Broward from the number of votes for Governor, we get 24,992. Assuming that these votes go as did the others, that adds just over 9,000 votes for Nelson. (It doesn't affect DeSantis.) Which leaves Scott with a lead of ~200. (10)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

That would be a small enough lead that a recount could potentially change the result. But to get to that point we have to make a lot of pro-Democrat assumptions, and to assume facts not in evidence. It seems unlikely to me that either of these results is going to change. (11)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Which is to say that, as it stands, Ron DeSantis is the next governor of Florida, and, barring some catastrophic errors in tabulation, or some remarkably creative lawyering, Rick Scott is Florida's next Senator. But it's Florida, so . . . (12/12)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

More:

A few definitions. An "automatic recount" is required for any race with a margin under 0.5%. It involves feeding all the ballots back through the voting machines—including reconstructed damaged ballots. If the new result yields a winning margin over 0.25 the election is over. (1)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

A "manual recount" does not mean every vote is counted by hand. Rather, it involves canvassing boards checking every "undervote" and "overvote." An "overvote" is when a voter makes more choices than allowed; an "undervote" is when a voter makes no choice, or too few choices. (2)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

An "undervote" is almost never counted. If a voter declines to vote for a particular office, that's his choice and there's nothing anyone can do. As such, an "undervote" will only be counted if, say, the optical machine has made an error and failed to pick up a vote. (3)

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 10, 2018

Broward County, Florida Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes, a Democrat, was appointed by then-Republican Governor Jeb Bush in 2003.

Snipes has a history of malfeasance.