InfoWars kooks and rightwing conspiracy nuts are rushing to Florida to stop the votes from being counted: report

Eighteen years after the notorious "Brooks Brothers Riot" by GOP operatives during the 2000 Florida recount, a rogues gallery of far-right conspiracy theorists are descending upon the Sunshine State, The Daily Beastreports.

"A loose coalition of fringe right-wing personalities, local political activists and associates of longtime GOP trickster and Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone descended upon the Broward County Board of Elections Friday in order to protest the high-stakes recounting of the U.S. senate race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson," The Beast reported.

Included are right-wing activist Laura Loomer and former InfoWars personality Joe Biggs.

"Ali Alexander, a pro-Trump figure who runs a PAC bankrolled by the billionaire Mercer family, claimed that he would recruit both believers in the ludicrous QAnon conspiracy theory and homeless people to picket the Board of Elections," The Beast noted. "The Republican protest outside the board of elections was organized by Juan Fiol, a former Trump campaign volunteer who has been photographed with Stone, according to the Miami New Times. The crowd included members of the far-right Proud Boys, an all-male collection of 'Western Chauvinists' whose members have doubled as bodyguards for Stone in the past."

Roger Stone claims that the current efforts by his friends are "in no way analogous" to the infamous "Brooks Brothers Riot" in 2000.

"The protests drew parallels to the infamous Brooks Brother riots during the 2000 presidential vote recount, in which a group of young Republican operatives led by Stone, according to Stone, violently protested the manner in which ballots were being counted in the Miami-Dade County polling headquarters and spooked recount officials into pausing to the process, bringing George W. Bush one significant step closer to claiming the presidency," The Beast recalled.

Many of those who participated in the "Brooks Brothers Riot" prospered in GOP circles following their participation. For instance, Matt Schlapp is the current chair of the right-wing lobbying organization American Conservative Union and is married to Mercedes Schlapp, the White House Director of Strategic Communications.

This dynamic may create a financial and career incentive for current participants.

In 2009, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow looked back on the "Brooks Brothers Riot" participants to chart their ascendence in Republican Party politics.

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