State resorts to appeal Florida judge who recounted voters' time to set their signature

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But Nelson and the Democratic Party have launched "a red flag," Walker said.

"But it's not football, it's the precious and fundamental right to vote – the conservative right to all the other rights." And it's the right of a elector to count his vote. "

According to his decision, supervisors must also require that all voters who have been informed late that they have unpaired signatures correct the problem before 5 pm. Saturday – the same day that the results of a manual recount are due.

The election results are to be certified Tuesday by the Florida Cabinet, serving as the Election Prospecting Commission.

Detzner has until 5 pm today to inform the court if he intends to comply with the order. But his appeal can make this deadline theoretical.

Walker said he acknowledged that time is running out as supervisors have received thousands of postal votes and a recount is underway. He also wanted to make sure that the accused had the opportunity to request the suspension of the order.

The expedited decision came after more than five hours of testimony and arguments to determine whether the system put in place by the state to determine whether the signatures on the postal ballots were constitutional or whether the voters were deprived of their fundamental rights.

He was particularly disturbed by the fact that election officials in the states did not know how many ballots were at stake.

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Maria Matthews, director of the state secretary's election division, spoke Wednesday before Judge Mark Walker in federal court. (Photo: Nathan Archer / Tallahassee Democrat)

On Wednesday afternoon, Electoral Division Director Maria Matthews identified 3,688 postal ballots and 93 provisional ballots in 45 counties that were not counted due to the lack of matching signatures. She estimated that the total could be about 5,000 based on the 2016 results.

"It seems to me that the people of Florida should know if it is 3,000 or 5,000 people instead of drawing a magic number," he told the bench Wednesday.

Voters whose ballots are delivered before 5 pm the day before polling day, the tellers can be "cured" if the election supervisor rejects them because the signature on the envelope does not correspond to the signature of the file with the election supervisor.

Such a remedy is not available for ballot papers bearing the postmark of 6 November but submitted after 19 hours. Election Day Deadline.

Uzoma Nkwonta, Nelson's representative, argued that the system was fundamentally flawed because there was no recourse for these people. The law did not provide for any process allowing an elector to challenge a refusal to sign, let alone be informed of the rejection of his vote, he explained.

"It's a card game against voters," Nkwonta said.

Nelson's team filed an affidavit from former Congressman Patrick Murphy, from Palm Beach County, claiming his ballot had been rejected, with the supervisor saying his signature did not match.