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From FOX News
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – The top election official in Florida's heavily Democratic Broward County said late Thursday that the county had uploaded the results of its recount two minutes after the state’s 3 p.m. deadline – making its machine recount tally void. Instead, the county's results from last Tuesday’s election will stand until manual recount totals in the state's closely contested Senate race come in Sunday at noon.
GOP Senate candidate Rick Scott's campaign charged that embattled Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes intentionally submitted late results so that they would be invalidated. In the recount, Scott's Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, lost more votes than Scott -- meaning Scott would have seen a net gain of 779 votes if Snipes hadn't been late.
The news of the bungled ballot count comes after Snipes boasted about never missing a deadline.
“We are excited to be at this point,” she said Thursday afternoon.
COMMENT:-
Quite frankly I'm stunned that such a stupid event could ever take place in a country that prides itself on free, fair, open, and honest elections.
Admittedly I live in a country that some people on DP refer to as "Communist Canada", but here the rules are:
Broward misses machine recount deadline -- by 2 minutes
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – The top election official in Florida's heavily Democratic Broward County said late Thursday that the county had uploaded the results of its recount two minutes after the state’s 3 p.m. deadline – making its machine recount tally void. Instead, the county's results from last Tuesday’s election will stand until manual recount totals in the state's closely contested Senate race come in Sunday at noon.
GOP Senate candidate Rick Scott's campaign charged that embattled Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes intentionally submitted late results so that they would be invalidated. In the recount, Scott's Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, lost more votes than Scott -- meaning Scott would have seen a net gain of 779 votes if Snipes hadn't been late.
The news of the bungled ballot count comes after Snipes boasted about never missing a deadline.
“We are excited to be at this point,” she said Thursday afternoon.
COMMENT:-
Quite frankly I'm stunned that such a stupid event could ever take place in a country that prides itself on free, fair, open, and honest elections.
Admittedly I live in a country that some people on DP refer to as "Communist Canada", but here the rules are:
- if you are in line to vote when the closing hour for voting arrives, they stop the clock and you get to vote (but no late comers are allowed to join the line);
- What happens in your jurisdiction?;
- while you do have to prove your identity to vote, the ways of doing so are HERE;
- What are the equivalent acceptable IDs in your jurisdiction?
- In order to be a Returning Officer you have to meet certain qualifications and you can find those HERE;
- What are the qualifications in your jurisdiction?
- the counting of votes is finished when the votes are actually counted.
- When does the counting of votes end in your jurisdiction?