More people than ever are expected to cast absentee ballots for the first time, which could lead to an increase in the kinds of mistakes that typically would be caught by a scanner or election worker at the polls.
Leon County Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley will begin implementing Amendment 4 in January, apparently circumventing Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis‘ desire to wait until after the upcoming Legislative Session. The measure, approved by voters in November, gives voting rights back to certain felons who’ve completed their sentences. DeSantis told the Palm Beach Post last week that […]
Siding with U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign and national Democrats, a federal judge early Thursday gave voters until 5 p.m. Saturday to fix ballots that were rejected because of mismatched signatures. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker’s ruling came before a 3 p.m. Thursday deadline for a machine recount to be completed in the U.S. […]
Updated Thursday — Judge Walker has ordered Florida elections officials to allow “voters who have been belatedly notified they have submitted a mismatched-signature ballot” to fix them by 5 p.m. Saturday. Click here to read more about the order. Wednesday’s story is below. The full 34-page order is at the bottom of this article. __ […]
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