Canvassing board election lawsuit
What the county recorded
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The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Jun 2, 2020
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Jun 2, 2020
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What was said
Machine transcription of 2m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 17% of 6 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
Thank you, sir. Mr. Steisleiner.
Uh members of the board. Uh this week the canvassing board was served with a uh elections lawsuit that has been pending for some time. Uh the title is Kirk Nielsen et al. versus Ron DeSantis et al. Originally was filed against the governor and the Secretary of State. They added the supervisors of election and now
Um We believe, based on the review of the complaint, that the canvassing board is a nominal defendant and the county attorney's office will continue to represent them. We're preparing a motion to dismiss uh them being in the case. Um if it gets much more complicated, I may be able, I may, since it is a
specialty area of the law, elections law um I may ask you about outside counsel, but at the present time the supervisor is supervisor elections in Pasco is being represented by outside counsel. Um they were not willing to take on the canvassing board so we will represent the canvassing board. at least through the motion to dismiss phase and see where this is going, uh, but basically
all 67 supervisors and all 67 canvassing boards have been named at this point. um and Judge Sestak as chair of the canvassing board was served last week. So Um I don't know that I need your permission because we're generally assigned to represent the canvassing board, but I did think that I should mention it to you all.
And that's all I have. Thank you.