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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPalm Beach Post: Did missing South Florida absentee ballots turn the tide?
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20181110/did-missing-south-florida-absentee-ballots-turn-tideState elections data indicate hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots mailed out were not returned, more than enough to have made the difference in Floridas 2018 midterm election, where margins were so slender the governors and senators races are headed for recounts.
The number of absentee ballots not returned was much higher than in the 2014 or 2016 general elections. And the data show that played to the benefit of Republican candidates, especially in heavily Democratic Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
In those South Florida counties, 174,649 ballots sent to Democrats werent returned. Thats 91,038 more than those not returned by Republicans. The three counties accounted for 86 percent of the statewide gap of 105,283 between Democratic and Republican vote-by-mail ballots not returned.
In thousands of cases, the data show, county election supervisors didnt send out requested ballots until after the legal cut-off, Oct. 31. They went out so close to Election Day its doubtful they could be returned in time to be counted, or to have problems sorted out, said Daniel Smith, chairman of University of Floridas political science department, who specializes in absentee ballot analysis.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)#ThoseFuckers
Botany
(70,504 posts)And why is Rick Scott so afraid of looking @ and counting the vote? Might be because he
knows it was dirty.
Rick Scott's campaign announces three more election lawsuits
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/11/politics/rick-scott-florida-election-senate/index.html
Baitball Blogger
(46,706 posts)superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Mail in ballots are way too shady in a bi partisan state
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)Scott/GOP is fighting tooth and nail not to have this fraud revealed.
Just recently I have seen a posting on DU about 1,000% increase in the
undervote aka spoiled ballots in the heavily democratic counties in FL in
2016 too. And yet the talking heads will go on and on about how the
democrats lost because the voters did not respond to their messages.
tavernier
(12,388 posts)I requested a mail in ballot to be sent to Indiana where I have been visiting family since August. It had not arrived by the Saturday prior to Election Day, waaaay too late to be counted. As it happened, my Florida daughters 50th birthday fell on the 7th, so I had already decided to fly back that week. So screw their late mail in ballot, I voted at my own precinct early Tuesday morning. But had I not decided to go home for the week, had not booked a flight, I would have been livid!
My mail here was held until I returned, so I will be very curious to see if the ballot came while I was away.
Baitball Blogger
(46,706 posts)Add this to the body of evidence: I received a mail-in ballot on time, but, I decided to go in, in person to vote. As I walked into the facility there was a person accepting mail-in ballots. This was a first time. Never saw this before. A box was offered for you to drop your vote. I walked past it because I planned to vote in person.
Inside, they wouldn't allow me to vote unless I turned in my voided mail-in ballot. Now, if I didn't know that ahead of time that would have required another trip back, in order to vote. How convenient for the Republicans that most people who received those ballots late wouldn't have known about that requirement until election day.
Botany
(70,504 posts)... the GOP for years.
In the early 1960s William Rehnquist tried to stop blacks from registering to vote but
years later @ his senate confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court Rehnquist said
he could not remember if he did not such an action.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/04/us/rehnquist-in-arizona-a-militant-conservative-in-60-s-politics.html
Baitball Blogger
(46,706 posts)They have lost the high moral ground, but I don't think it matters to them.
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)my issue is the "middle" types who yawn about it ...
Botany
(70,504 posts).... power and if it takes stopping certain people from voting (blacks) oh well, then that is
just something that needs to be done.
And it is not like we don't have examples in Florida such as in 2000 when DBT was hired by
Jeb Bush and removed 50,000 to 95,000 African Americans from voting because they were
"felons." (not true)
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to get those mail-in ballots they'd requested in asap hadn't received them yet and were wondering where they were. We were reminding them they could still vote in person during the early voting period instead, or on election day, and definitely should if the ballots didn't arrive by X date.
In this case, I actually really hope and expect that significantly more of those 91K Democrats did vote than did not. Leaving the rest. Significant numbers of Floridians are elderly or otherwise disabled.
Last voting day in Broward County:
https://thumbnails.texastribune.org/zyp8LNn8Y7Oi0Ly0x2ZITZsUv6I=/850x570/smart/filters:quality(80)/
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)I voted in person instead, thus nulling my mail-in ballot.