Just as an example of how screwed-up are Florida election
laws yesterday Indian River Co.’s Canvassing Board
approved the primary election results. Hopefully the reader
will recall that Indian River had over 5000 ballots that
were counted twice because someone decided to do a test in
the middle of a real election and then failed to properly
remove the results in that test. The result was ballots from
40 polling sites that were counted twice. Luckily an
observant poll worker realized the totals for her site were
double what they should have been. She pointed out the
mistake and the county found their error. Tomorrow the board
must do a state mandated audit to ensure their voting
machines were correctly counting the votes. If the poll
worker hadn’t been observant and if this audit were to
find the problem, or any other problem that might exist with
the vote count, NOTHING can/could be done because the
results have already been approved by the Canvassing Board.
One has to wonder what some officials in Florida are
thinking when they make stupid rules. This audit is newly
mandated. Why didn’t they mandate it to happen before
canvassing the election? Post election audits are great. We
need them everywhere and following every election but they
have to be timed in such a way as to mean something if
problems are found. If they don’t have a purpose (to
ensure the votes were properly counted) then they are a
waste of tax money....
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