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Florida recount: Palm Beach County says it will probably miss deadline as judge gives voters time to
Source: Washington Post
Florida recount: Palm Beach County says it will probably miss deadline as judge gives voters time to fix ballots with signature issues
By Sean Sullivan, Beth Reinhard and Amy Gardner November 15 at 11:03 AM
TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s historic recount was thrown once more into uncertainty Thursday when a county said it probably won’t meet a counting deadline and a federal judge ruled that at least 4,000 voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were rejected because of issues with their signatures may be given two days to resolve the problem and have their votes counted.
The decision by Judge Mark Walker of the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee came hours ahead of the Thursday afternoon deadline for elections officials to complete a machine recount. Early Thursday, officials in Broward County finished their count and prepared to release a new vote total for Florida’s second-largest jurisdiction.
But in Palm Beach County, a populous Democratic stronghold, Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher said Thursday morning it was doubtful officials would complete their recount by the 3 p.m. deadline. Thursday morning, Bucher and other officials were feeding ballots into a machine that kept stopping and starting.
“We were very close to the end, and our machines went down,” she said. Bucher estimated the county now only had a “slim chance” of completing its count for the Senate race on time and would not have recounted ballots in other races.
It was not clear how the missed deadline or the judge’s decision would affect the timing of recount, which was expected to move to a manual canvass Friday in the too-close-to-call Senate race, in which Gov. Rick Scott (R) leads Sen. Bill Nelson (D) by fewer than 13,000 votes.
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By Sean Sullivan, Beth Reinhard and Amy Gardner November 15 at 11:03 AM
TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s historic recount was thrown once more into uncertainty Thursday when a county said it probably won’t meet a counting deadline and a federal judge ruled that at least 4,000 voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were rejected because of issues with their signatures may be given two days to resolve the problem and have their votes counted.
The decision by Judge Mark Walker of the U.S. District Court in Tallahassee came hours ahead of the Thursday afternoon deadline for elections officials to complete a machine recount. Early Thursday, officials in Broward County finished their count and prepared to release a new vote total for Florida’s second-largest jurisdiction.
But in Palm Beach County, a populous Democratic stronghold, Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher said Thursday morning it was doubtful officials would complete their recount by the 3 p.m. deadline. Thursday morning, Bucher and other officials were feeding ballots into a machine that kept stopping and starting.
“We were very close to the end, and our machines went down,” she said. Bucher estimated the county now only had a “slim chance” of completing its count for the Senate race on time and would not have recounted ballots in other races.
It was not clear how the missed deadline or the judge’s decision would affect the timing of recount, which was expected to move to a manual canvass Friday in the too-close-to-call Senate race, in which Gov. Rick Scott (R) leads Sen. Bill Nelson (D) by fewer than 13,000 votes.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-recount-signatures-judge-ballot-machine-count-deadline/2018/11/15/21275a22-e87c-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html
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