This was the year Florida's Democrats spoke ambitiously of ending their 20-year journey in political exile in this battleground state.

'We are concerned with the ramifications of failing to complete this task, but we don’t want to disenfranchise 714,859 voters at the expense of 2,000 voters.'

Does he think nobody had video cameras in 2006 or something?

'As far as we’re concerned, he is the senator-elect.'

'We need to put this election behind us, and it is time for Bill Nelson to respect the will of the voters.'

A federal judge rejected a push by Democratic Florida Sen. Bill Nelson to extend the machine recount deadline in a Thursday ruling.

'Every day since the election, the left-wing activists in Broward County have been coming up with more and more ballots out of nowhere.'

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'Everything the lawyers are saying out there in front of the elections office is being beamed all over the country. We need to be careful of what we say. Words mean things these days.'

'The Broward and Palm Beach County Supervisors of Elections have already demonstrated a blatant disregard for Florida’s elections laws.'