Broward officials blame U.S. Postal Service over missing ballots

[steve2470]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/10022946.htm?1c

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Broward County officials blamed the U.S. Postal Service Tuesday for misplacing nearly half of the absentee ballots requested in the county, as frustrated voters trying to find out what happened overwhelmed phone lines at the elections office.

The Postal Service denied responsibility for the missing ballots, but Broward officials said they sent about 58,000 ballots more than two weeks ago, on Oct. 7-8. As of Tuesday, 126,220 absentee ballots had been requested.

"That is something beyond our control," Deputy Supervisor of Elections Gisela Salas told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "We really have no idea what's going on. It's just taken an extraordinary amount of time. I would really encourage people to use early voting."

"We have employees that we assign to handle the absentee ballots that come in," said Enola C. Rice, spokeswoman for the Postal Service's South Florida District. "So all the absentee ballots that are received by the postal service are processed and delivered immediately."

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[steve2470]

1. kick nt

[steve2470]

3. kick nt

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Uhhhh

The post office does this every day. How could they screw this up?

[bullimiami]

5. because they didnt? (the post offc screwing it up that is)

broward county. jeb bush removed the elected supervisor and installed one of his own.

so now its all fubar. coincidence?

[are_we_united_yet]

7. Yes that was my point

[LiberalAndProud]

4. It is possible that there is a roomful of ballots in a postcarrier's apt.

It's been know to happen. Have heard rumors of lazy carriers in the past. Perhaps the USPS has a particularly vile Freeper employed in Broward County with motives other than laziness.

[steve2470]

6. kick and good night :-) nt

[Guaranteed]

8. I've got my work cut out for me, I guess- I'm heading down to

Ft. Lauderdale this weekend.

They had BETTER fix this.

And how the HELL do you LOSE 58,000 ballots???