kind of a minor point here on mueller's indictments but;
https://archive.fo/hVyT4Quote
@GUCCIFER_2 Got anything on the Wasserman Schultz primary?
12:50 PM - 15 Aug 2016
the unnamed congressional candidate mentioned in the indictment asking Guccifer 2.0 for information on his opponent on August 15th was Tim Canova, who ran against Debbie Wasserman Schulz in the democratic primaries. Daniel Deriso is one of his 'field team'
he was already wrapped up in the DNC emails fallout from accusations that the emails revealed DWS rigging her own election against him:
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The Florida Democratic party initially refused access to its voter database to the Canova campaign.[18] Following complaints by the Florida Progressive Democratic Caucus and the Canova campaign, the Florida Democratic party leadership, in March 2016, reversed its position. However, Florida Democratic Party executive director Scott Arceneaux specified that the exception would only apply to the contest between Canova and Wasserman Schultz, because of "the truly unique factors." Canova commented, "I hate to be critical at a moment when I am thankful, but I think that is bad policy."[19]
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After Wikileaks released hacked Democratic National Committee emails in July 2016, Canova stated that he had searched their database and found his name mentioned in about 70 emails.[27] On August 8, 2016, Canova’s campaign announced that they were filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing Wasserman Schultz of "us[ing] her position with the DNC and the resources of the DNC to improperly benefit her congressional campaign."
Essentially, Florida democrats deny primary challengers to DNC resources as a matter of policy, but grant them to incumbents. They do this for all incumbents in Florida, but DWS being part of the DNC leadership meant she had control over the rule, so she was shutting out her own challengers.
That lawsuit didn't go anywhere afaik, but this one did:
http://ballot-access.org/2018/05/14/tim-canova-wins-lawsuit-over-early-destruction-of-2016-florida-u-s-house-primary-ballots/Quote
On August 30, 2016, Florida held its congressional-state office primaries. One of the closer contests was the race between incumbent Democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and professor Tim Canova in the 23rd district, which is mostly in Broward County. The results were: Wasserman Schultz 28,809; Canova 21,907.
Canova suspected that the results were inaccurate. On October 19, 2017, he filed a public records request to see the ballots. Federal law says election officials must retain ballots until 22 months after any federal primary or election. But after Canova filed his lawsuit, Broward County election officials disposed of all the 2016 primary ballots. Canova sued. On May 11, 2018, the state trial court ruled that the destruction of the ballots was unlawful, as was the failure of the county to produce the ballots so that Canova could inspect them. Here is the 9-page opinion in Canova v Snipes, Broward Co. Circuit Court, CACE17-010904.
Ironically, earlier this year, Canova withdrew from the Democratic primary for the same seat this year, and switched to being an independent candidate. Part of his motivation was despair that he could get a fair vote-counting process in this year’s Democratic primary. If he had won the case earlier, he might have remained in the 2018 primary. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.