Offs, Florida.
Offs, Florida. I know election law is a morass of arcana and it's state by state but whatever you people are doing is perpetuating a system that just randomly disenfranchises people and you clearly do not care. This isn't a partisan issue. It's impossible that all those votes you threw out were only for non-Republicans. It's more than one county with these problems, too. Your state is an embarrassment that denies citizens their rights on a rather broad scale. You're just not as obvious about it as Georgia.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-broward-palm-first-recount-20181115-story.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-broward-palm-first-recount-20181115-story.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-broward-palm-first-recount-20181115-story.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-broward-palm-first-recount-20181115-story.html
It's like they want the courts to tell them which votes are valid and which are not. I didn't read, but I'm sure this would garner a lawsuit of some kind.
ReplyDeleteI'm angry.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the instant news cycle business is definitely having a negative impact on all of this, as well. Nobody used to bat an eye if it took a week or so to figure out who won an election. If it took a month, people would want to know why but, again, it was more important that the process was done properly and well and respectfully.
ReplyDeleteNow, everybody rushes to be first with their "predictions", which are not always right, and which can influence what happens no matter what people say. I firmly believe that if people are still voting in California but they're already reporting results in New York it subconsciously if not consciously affects people who might or might not go vote or how they might or might not vote. And this matters even at state and local levels. It's not just a national presidential election thing.
In addition, I get the feeling that all those absentee ballots and other type ballots used to get ignored when elections generally weren't particularly close. It makes me wonder, though, whether they were simply ignoring votes that might have redirected an outcome. Now, with instant predictions before the results are in, anything that changes the instant results looks like somebody somehow cheated. Instead of, you know, waiting until somebody counts the actual votes before suggesting who wins.
The process is clearly poor and the news people and everybody else need to calm the heck down and actually let people vote, build in some verification redundancy, and do some quality control. For example, make sure your damn technology works and your ballots aren't stupidly designed.
I've definitely seen some discussion on twitter about election night reporting and how it needs to change as more states add mail ballots as well as for things like this.
ReplyDeleteJudge Walker has extended the deadline for voters whose ballots had been rejected for signature issues to resolve the problem with election officials until 5 p.m. on Saturday, so that their votes can be counted. But on Thursday he said he would not allow the court to be "used" by either party to "target" individual voters, which he predicted would happen if he took the additional step of releasing the voters' identities.
ReplyDelete... so how are these people informed there is something to do?
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