Broward volunteers finish manual recount of Senate race at lightning speed
Source: The Miami Herald
Even with a late start to the morning, volunteers for Broward County finished the manual recount for the U.S. senate race Friday in under two hours before the catered lunch even arrived.
Broward County Canvassing Board Attorney René Harrod announced the volunteers were done for the day at 10 a.m. Many will return Saturday to count the Agricultural Commission race and Sunday to count a local commission race.
While officials have given no official count or estimate on the number of under and over votes counted Friday, numbers reported to the state indicate there were about 32,000 in Broward.
Broward Countys lightning speed on counting the vote appears to be due to the hundreds of volunteers at work, as well as a large amount of undervotes votes for neither senate candidate.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article221762800.html
Bfd
(1,406 posts)Good for the many volunteers!
certainot
(9,090 posts)of course republicans made those......
1500 radio stations screamed about human (dem) inefficiency and corruption, hanging chads and bullshat about how inefficient and fraud prone they were ('democrat' operatives stealing elections, etc), how bad the old machines were, and how new electronic machines would be cheaper and safer and more accurate. that morphed into blaming dems for using 'illegal' immigrants to vote dem to pass their voter suppression legislation, and now they're screaming about dems stealing more elections again.
another great success for the invisible talk radio megaphone
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)OTTAWA As the potential for cyberattacks to undermine the democratic process becomes alarmingly clear, Canadians can take some comfort in the fact that national elections in this country are still conducted the old-fashioned way.
Canada is not immune to cybermischief aimed at suppressing the number of people who vote or manipulating how they vote. But once ballots are cast, not even the most sophisticated cyberattack could tamper with the results.
Thats because Canada still relies on paper ballots, hand-marked by voters and hand-counted by officials in some 25,000 different polling stations across the country, under the watchful eye of scrutineers from each of the major political parties.
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/paper-ballots-protect-against-hacks-but-other-election-cyberthreats-loom
Without electronics, whatever will Steve Kornacki do?
OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)From my understanding of U.S. elections, there could be State Reps, Congressional Reps, Governors, Senators, Judges, DAs, Presidents, Propositions, etc. Hand counting all of these from one ballot sheet would be a nightmare.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)in earnings per year. Poll workers are some wonderful people. They 'carry the mail', and count the votes for all of us. Year after year. Id like to see more citizens getting medals. ALOT more citizens getting medals.
Firefighters in CA would be good candidates. We need a new category of medal...a medal for the rest of us.
MichMan
(11,790 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)bluestarone
(16,723 posts)How the hell can DEMS. NOT know what's The most IMPORTANT part of voting????? THIS is BEYOND crazy in my mind!!!!!
mahina
(17,506 posts)Demsrule86
(68,355 posts)Cetacea
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A design like that is a major fail in ballot designing. But the GOP election machine will likely remain for for more years.
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)MichMan
(11,790 posts)It was her responsibility. Surprised you would accuse an elected Democrat and POC of intentionally sabotaging Bill Nelson.
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)As if people believe that merely having a (D) automatically denies anything other than righteous intent.
No... not surprising at all.
MichMan
(11,790 posts)Brenda Snipes can be blamed for poor judgement and perhaps lack of competence, but to accuse her of intentionally sabotaging Bill Nelson's Senate race with the ballot design is out of line.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)And she's proven to be absolutely incompetent MANY times over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Snipes#Career
MichMan
(11,790 posts)Apparently the voters of Broward County are pleased with her
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Shes a lousy SoE and needs to be removed. Incompetence should not be rewarded, regardless of what letter follows their name.
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)even know who she is, or that she designed the ballot or had any oversight until you said, 'ask Brenda Snipes.' And as I wrote, I recall her being asked about it in general by the media and that's all.
MichMan
(11,790 posts)That is why I replied the way I did
FBaggins
(26,697 posts)The campaigns have an opportunity to see the ballot design well in advance and could have protested.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,965 posts)It sure is.
A friend lives in Florida, and he told me that the ballot was a piece of shit designed ballot, and that was even before this latest kerfuffel went down. I our new, larger postage-paid paper ballots here in California. You don't have to go searching for major office holders, ballot initiatives, judges or local races/ballot initiatives because every 'like thing' is on the same page TOGETHER, and the type on the pages is LARGE so you can SEE who/what you're voting for. But then again, this is a Navy Blue state, and while we're not perfect, we've pretty much done away with those racist, vile, cheating, treasonous thuglicans here in California
Poor Florida. Stuck with a should be in jail Senator and a DeRacist Governor who are going to continue running that state into the ground until Dem leadership takes over, and that will ONLY come via voting but the vote there is rigged in various ways starting with a crazy-designed ballot
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,908 posts)Bad ballot design led to a lot of undervotes for Bill Nelson in Broward Co., possibly even enough to cost him his Senate seat. They do appear to be real undervotes, though, instead of tabulation errors. He doesn't really seem to have a path to victory.
Link to tweet
OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)It padded his totals by 700 votes. I thought, according to his team, these recounts were the Democrats trying to steal the election.
Pisces
(5,592 posts)Posting, plus past inadequacies call for her immediate removal. I do not understand how that ballot design was approved. She is either incompetent or working for Republicans. Both will require her resignation.