Jeb may have stolen tens of thousands of votes already?

[Selwynn]

Missing absentee ballots in Broward Co. could be a catastrophe

Broward County, Florida, has just announced that it is resending some 76,000 absentee ballots. Some 56,000 ballots, asserted by the Elections Office to have been mailed on October 7-8, have not been received.

What happened to 56,000 ballots demands a thorough investigation. It's difficult to imagine such a large mailing "lost" without some criminal activity. But the investigation will have to wait until after the election.

In the meantime, those missing ballots are a real threat to the outcome of the Florida election. For some—home-bound people and travelers—the absentee ballot is a must. But of the total requests, this group does not represent the greater portion.

The majority have requested the ballots as a convenience or as insurance that their vote is counted. So can they just go to the polls and vote?

Not exactly.

"If a voter has received an absentee ballot and has not sent it back, they must hand it over to election officials before they can vote on Election Day. "

Since you can't return what you haven't received, I made a call to a Florida Supervisor of Election's office to find out what the procedure is for the voter who cannot return his/her absentee ballot. It is this: a poll worker at the precinct must call in to the Elections office to verify that no ballot has been received before the voter may proceed to vote. Even a few thousand such calls would overwhelm any system in the state!

If the Broward Elections office mailed the ballots on or before October 8, as it says, and if the U.S. Postal Service hasn't been able to deliver them by now, I can't be optimistic that this second batch will be delivered on time.

If you are a Florida resident and have requested a ballot that you haven't received, I would urge you to vote before November 2.


http://www.simplyappalling.blogspot.com/#109897405704404588

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Broward County's election office is resending about 76,000 absentee ballots to voters who say they asked for but still haven't received them, an ominous sign of voting problems just days before the nation again sets its eyes on Florida.

The elections office is still trying to discover why so many people haven't received the absentee ballots. But with so little time before Tuesday's election, officials will mail out replacements -- thousands of them -- today. The ballots will be shipped via overnight mail to people outside the county, said Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes.

Broward's mix-up is the most profound, but not the only, glitch in the absentee voter process across Florida. From teenagers away at school to homeowners away on travel, complaints are mounting that absentee ballots have somehow been lost between here and there. Voters in Palm Beach County have reported similar problems.

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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement -- at Snipes' request -- launched an investigation Tuesday, but found no evidence of criminal intent, said Paige Patterson-Hughes, spokeswoman for the agency's South Florida region.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10033338.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp&1c

[Hobarticus]

1. Good work, Selwynn!

[xray s]

2. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!

This is the stealing of the Florida Election 2004.

Who at the USPS threw those ballots away?

[Not Me]

3. They have pissed away way too much time already.

If they had taken this seriously from the onset, they would invalidate every (original) absentee ballot, and reprint them as replacement ballots and overnight them to those who requested them. They had the time...when it was first uncovered. In terms of expense, they can't afford NOT to do it right.