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live love laugh

(16,026 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:14 PM Oct 21

RETRACTION: Florida has more votes than citizens from the 2024 election

Last edited Tue Oct 21, 2025, 06:58 PM - Edit history (1)

I was wrong. There is a lot of BS out there to confuse the real harm that’s being done. This is BS. I could have just deleted the thread but I want to apologize and commit to being more careful in the future.


I just saw it on Instagram the national voting alliance audited Florida and this is the result.

They put Democrats in jail for supposed illegal voting while Republicans were encouraged to vote multiple times and they did so without consequence. That’s also why Trump got so many votes nationally.

Talk about being radical… Republicans are stealing elections by any means necessary to take control of this country and all of our resources.
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RETRACTION: Florida has more votes than citizens from the 2024 election (Original Post) live love laugh Oct 21 OP
An NO ONE has come up with a way to stop or counter it I Chasstev365 Oct 21 #1
Until we get a clear majority it can't be changed. live love laugh Oct 21 #2
Democrats had numerous chances to hold Republicans accountable gab13by13 Oct 21 #6
The strategy is to raise a boat load of money for candidates, then GOTV gab13by13 Oct 21 #5
I Expected As Much - But..... global1 Oct 21 #3
I think it would be foolish to swallow an unattributed assertion in a second-hand post via Instagram. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 21 #10
Instagram is not a source anyone should trust. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 21 #4
lol live love laugh Oct 21 #8
this is why shit is broken pimpbot Oct 21 #15
I know why, at least in my case: no_hypocrisy Oct 21 #7
Did you turn him in? Kaleva Oct 21 #12
No. Family member. no_hypocrisy Oct 21 #13
This is blatantly false. Why litter DU with such clear misinformation? tritsofme Oct 21 #9
For this to work, Democrats would have to be involved Kaleva Oct 21 #11
I don't see any organization called the National Voting Alliance. chowder66 Oct 21 #14
I googled Greg_In_SF Oct 21 #16
Nonsense. Ms. Toad Oct 21 #17
I'm not making any claim about this op either way but questionseverything Oct 21 #19
"Blank ballots are tossed first" MichMan Oct 21 #20
Obviously there's nothing to count on a blank ballot questionseverything Oct 21 #22
What about absentee ballots that aren't turned in? MichMan Oct 21 #27
There is a count done by an R and a D after the polls close Kaleva Oct 22 #31
The claim wasn't more votes than voters. Ms. Toad Oct 21 #24
Yes the claim was different but I would think more votes than voters would get noticed too questionseverything Oct 22 #30
Please delete this garbage. It isn't remotely close to being true and makes DU look Wiz Imp Oct 21 #18
Um..... ProfessorGAC Oct 21 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Oct 21 #23
Your retraction is honourable & helps identify misinformation, so approach you took is a good one (not self-deletion).nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 21 #25
You dealt with this admirably! herding cats Oct 21 #26
+1. Well stated. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 21 #28
We need the Biggest march in history.. all of our history.. to get oversight of our elections. halobeam Oct 21 #29

gab13by13

(30,321 posts)
5. The strategy is to raise a boat load of money for candidates, then GOTV
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:36 PM
Oct 21

Meanwhile, Gore let Shrub win.
Kerry let Shrub win.

Here in my Pa. Bob Casey let McCormick win without an audit.

No one can explain why Krasnov got a surge of votes on election day but only in the swing states?

9 Magat states are planning to gerrymander, so far only 1 Blue state. When the fascist Supreme Court guts the Civil Right's Act Magats will pick up 19 more seats.

Someone said that it's not about who gets the most votes, it's about who counts the votes.

global1

(26,283 posts)
3. I Expected As Much - But.....
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:34 PM
Oct 21

no one is going to do anything about this. And we're just gonna bend over and let this happen to us again.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,935 posts)
10. I think it would be foolish to swallow an unattributed assertion in a second-hand post via Instagram. . . nt
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:53 PM
Oct 21

pimpbot

(1,135 posts)
15. this is why shit is broken
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 03:47 PM
Oct 21

Everyone is passing around crap on fb, insta, x, tiktok, etc and 80% of it is flat out wrong or misleading.

Youtube has gotten terrible. I used to easily find videos on how to use a tool or do some sort of diy repair, now the results are littered with stuff nowhere near relevant to my search. Enshittification.

no_hypocrisy

(53,614 posts)
7. I know why, at least in my case:
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:40 PM
Oct 21

I know a man who’s registered to vote in NJ, where he lives, and in Broward County (FL) where his vacation home is. He votes twice.

Kaleva

(40,038 posts)
11. For this to work, Democrats would have to be involved
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 03:15 PM
Oct 21

I work elections and the rule is that there must be at least 1 Republican and 1 Democrat on scene at all times.

Greg_In_SF

(677 posts)
16. I googled
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 03:48 PM
Oct 21

"Florida has more votes than citizens from the 2024 election".

Absolutely nothing came up other than links to this thread 🤔

Ms. Toad

(37,929 posts)
17. Nonsense.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 04:00 PM
Oct 21

More votes than citizens would have been noticed on election night. Heck, even more votes than registered voters would have been obvious on election night.

Only 67% of those eligible to vote are registered in Florida. In addition, roughly 20% of Florida citizens are under 18. So ballparking it, since I'm lazy and didn't want to pull my calculator out for such a ludicrous claim, that would mean twice as many people voted as live in Florida . . . And they needed 11 months and an audit to notice this?

questionseverything

(11,397 posts)
19. I'm not making any claim about this op either way but
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 06:35 PM
Oct 21

The more votes than voters thing happens often enough that in recounts in some states they just “toss” ballots until it matches the count. Blank ballots are tossed first .

questionseverything

(11,397 posts)
22. Obviously there's nothing to count on a blank ballot
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 06:46 PM
Oct 21

But

The number of names on the voter’s list should match the number of ballots

Kaleva

(40,038 posts)
31. There is a count done by an R and a D after the polls close
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 07:32 AM
Oct 22

I and the R who worked the election had to count and certify that the numbers matched.

Ms. Toad

(37,929 posts)
24. The claim wasn't more votes than voters.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 09:24 PM
Oct 21

It was more votes than citizens. There are around twice as many citizens as there are registered voters. A 100% discrepancy between registered voters and votes (i.e. twice as many votes as possible) would not take 11 months and an audit to notice.

questionseverything

(11,397 posts)
30. Yes the claim was different but I would think more votes than voters would get noticed too
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:20 AM
Oct 22

But it happens often enough that the “drawdown “ remedy is written into the rules

One thing just reminded me of the other, that’s all

Wiz Imp

(7,838 posts)
18. Please delete this garbage. It isn't remotely close to being true and makes DU look
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 04:59 PM
Oct 21

bad by allowing it to remain posted. There were 11,004,209 voters in the 2024 election in Florida. The number of registered voters in Florida was 13,949,168. The total population of Florida of eligible voting age is approximately 18.8 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida

ProfessorGAC

(75,019 posts)
21. Um.....
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 06:41 PM
Oct 21

Florida has 23.4 million people.
Here's the vote breakdown for POTUS in '24:

2024 United States presidential election in Florida
Candidate Home state Florida California

Popular vote 6,110,125 4,683,038
Percentage 56.09% 42.99%

These add up to 10 8 million. Around 60% of voting eligible Florida's.
I find these audit result quite suspect.

Response to live love laugh (Original post)

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,935 posts)
25. Your retraction is honourable & helps identify misinformation, so approach you took is a good one (not self-deletion).nt
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:44 PM
Oct 21

herding cats

(19,915 posts)
26. You dealt with this admirably!
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:50 PM
Oct 21

Thank you for leaving it up and debunking the false narrative.

You're the type of person we need in our corner. Fiesty and not afraid to standup and ultimately debunk an internet falsehood. I truly appreciate you right now.

halobeam

(5,071 posts)
29. We need the Biggest march in history.. all of our history.. to get oversight of our elections.
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:28 PM
Oct 21

Carter center did it for countries that desperately needed it. I'd say we are in serious need.

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