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A Florida election supervisor has mixed invalid ballots with about 200 valid ballots, according to a report, in the latest example of what Republicans say is an incompetent treatment of votes as the state prepares a possible recount.
The error was discovered after Brenda Snipes, a Broward County official who has a long history of controversy over vote counting, agreed to present 205 provisional ballots to the County Solicitation Council for inspection, reported the Miami Herald.
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The solicitation office said Friday that 20 of the 205 provisional ballots were illegal because of mismatched signatures. The 205 ballots were set aside and then counted in a voting machine, although the results were not added to the final count of votes for the election, the report said.
Friday night, no solution to the error was found.
Snipes agreed to present the ballots for inspection to the council after Republican lawyers opposed Snipes' initial plan to process the ballots administratively.
"We have found no clear authority controlling the situation the board is facing," said Broward County Attorney Andrew Meyers, according to the newspaper.
Broward County collected over 600 provisional ballots on polling day, but the vast majority was disqualified by the board for reasons such as the voter had registered too late or had voted in the polls. a bad riding.
Just over 200 ballots were also deemed invalid and invalid due to a problem with the voter registration verification system. Some electors apparently searched their identity cards, but the polling station system could not confirm if they were registered, prompting staff to ask these electors to fill in provisional ballots.
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Republican lawyers pressured Snipes, citing the last case to say that she had mismanaged the voting procedure, and asked if the 205 votes would be counted. She refused to answer.
Broward County is mandated to report the total number of unofficial votes in the mid-term elections to the state by Saturday at noon.
The County and Snipes have been thoroughly reviewed, as Broward – Florida's second-largest county, with more than 1.9 million inhabitants – could be the region that will decide two key races: US Senate elections between incumbent Democratic MP Bill Nelson and Republican challenger Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida governor race between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis.
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