“I don’t understand why it’s going to completely bring Florida to its knees,” [Judge] Walker said.
Candidates start thinking about the next election years in advance.
Election officials take a more … relaxed approach.
I’m looking forward to seeing the look on Skeletor’s face as Bill Nelson takes the oath of office on January 3, 2019…
If the Senate race does go to a hand recount, the deadline for counties to finish is Sunday.
So the time given for a machine recount is 9 days (Nov. 6 to Nov 15) but the time given for a hand recount is only 3 days (Nov 15 to Nov 18)? This seems setup for an easy legal challenge to extend the deadline for the hand recount, since nobody expects a hand recount to be faster than a machine recount.
Four county supervisors turned over information that showed Democratic Party operatives changed official forms to say that voters had until two days after the election to fix any problems with mail-in ballot signatures. Under current law, a voter has until the day before Election Day to fix a problem.
WTF?
Does anyone know more about this? Was there an article I missed? WTF were they thinking?
“Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again.”
“Run to the local mob to get another name and Social Security card, then to a realtor to buy another house at a new address, then to DMV to get another picture ID, then back to the polls to vote by 7 pm.”
Four county supervisors turned over information that showed Democratic Party operatives changed official forms to say that voters had until two days after the election to fix any problems with mail-in ballot signatures. Under current law, a voter has until the day before Election Day to fix a problem.
I’d love to know which counties, what the supervisors’ party affiliations, and whether they have a hard copy of that altered form. Or did they hear it on Faux Snooze?
As I understand it, the manual recount only examines overvotes and undervotes, not ballots that were accepted and counted by the machines. That should help reduce the burden of the manual recount considerably over a full recount, though it’s still hard to tell whether three days will be enough for larger counties. There may be fewer votes to count, but the ballots will need to be examined for voter intent, while will take longer per ballot.