Recount Delayed in Florida's Broward County

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/recount-delayed-in-floridas-broward-county?ref=home

1. ANOTHER TWIST18 minutes ago
Recount Delayed in Florida’s Broward County
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The recount of Senate and gubernatorial ballots in Florida’s Broward County—a heavily Democratic area at the center of Republican conspiracy theories and allegations of voter fraud—has reportedly been delayed due to a problem with machines. The county was set to begin recounting about 700,000 ballots on Sunday morning on orders from the secretary of state, but a machine was failing to register all the ballots, the Associated Press reports. At the request of Republican representatives, officials subsequently agreed to retest the machines. County authorities have not said whether the delay could affect their ability to meet a Thursday deadline for the recount. The latest twist in the saga comes as flocks of Republican protesters have descended on the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office in recent days to echo claims made by President Trump, Florida Gov. Rick Scott, and other Republicans that Democrats are trying to “steal” the elections. Those claims, disputed by state officials who say election monitors saw no signs of illegal activity, coincided with Democratic advances in late vote counting. As of Saturday, when the recount was ordered, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and Democratic Senate candidate Bill Nelson were behind their Republican opponents by less than .5 percent.

[bluestarone]

1. This is very concerning!!

These fuckers will do anything!!!!

[Jersey Devil]

2. Is it raining in Fla too? They should golf while waiting for the rain to stop, then count votes

That's what Trump would do.

[MichMan]

3. Good, all the machines should be working correctly for the recount

[BumRushDaShow]

4. There was a suggestion by a lawyer for the Democratic party there

who was on (I think) Lawrence's show on Thursday (and who had been involved in the Gore recount), that the machines might not have actually worked the FIRST TIME when counting votes, and may have missed the candidate votes that were at the bottom of the Broward ballots. This was one of the speculations about why there was such a skewed undervote for I think Nelson.

[peekaloo]

6. Which is ridiculous that a Federal office was placed at the bottom of the ballot.

Florida has no uniformity in voting machines nor ballot outlay. I know there are different items for each county but common sense would be to place the Fed/Statewide elections at the top.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. 538 wrote about it

and it seems that Broward was the only County that seemed to have the problem.

Link to tweet

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Julia Wolfe
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@juruwolfe

The Broward vote numbers are very strange, and poor ballot design may to be blame. Excellent story from @baseballot and chart from @ellawinthrop https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/something-looks-weird-in-broward-county-heres-what-we-know-about-a-possible-florida-recount/ …
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1:48 PM - Nov 9, 2018

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/something-looks-weird-in-broward-county-heres-what-we-know-about-a-possible-florida-recount/

Plus...

Florida governor's race faces recount as Senate race gets even tighter

Steven Lemongello and Gray Rohrer
Orlando Sentinel


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Of Broward ballots already counted, more than 24,000 people voted for a governor candidate but didn’t record a vote for a Senate candidate, according to county results released Wednesday, which Elias said was extremely unusual. There has been speculation that the Senate race’s placement in the bottom left corner of the Broward ballot, away from the state races that got more votes, was responsible for the undercount. But Elias said that there were significant disparities even between congressional districts in the county meant the issue could be with voting machines.

“The scanning equipment may not have caught it,” he said. “The intent is clear, but the machine couldn’t pick it up.”

He also said the idea that thousands of voters looked at the governor’s race as the most important and didn’t vote in the Senate race also isn’t plausible, saying even the state attorney general’s race got more votes recorded.

Elias said historically, recounts tend to pick up more Democratic votes, even in GOP-dominated counties, though he added even Miami-Dade has a history of rejecting more mail-in ballots from African American and Hispanic voters than whites.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-florida-governor-recount-close-20181108-story.html

[peekaloo]

12. I hope it goes to a hand count.

Thanks.

[sl8]

10. Picture of Broward County ballot:

From https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/09/broward-county-ballots-send-florida-senate-governor-races-recounts/1943065002/

[peekaloo]

13. According to a story posted above it's a potential machine issue, eh?

That's still a crazy design.

Thanks.

[catrose]

5. Where are the Democrats?

Shouldn't we have an equal or greater number of demonstrators? It might make the election workers feel not so intimidated.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They are there. Remember the RW-owned media wants you as a Democrat to feel demoralized

so they make it look like Democrats are weak by neglecting to show them.



http://www.wlrn.org/post/let-her-do-her-job-protestors-gather-again-front-broward-elections-office

[catrose]

11. Thanks. I hope it helps the election workers, knowing that people WANT them to do their job

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. K&R