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"The difference in Broward County was 0.29 percent — higher than the margin between the candidates in both the Senate and agriculture commissioner’s races." Ap

"The difference in Broward County was 0.29 percent — higher than the margin between the candidates in both the Senate and agriculture commissioner’s races." Apparently, they have rules about how quickly the results have to be determined. Due to technical difficulties, if I read it correctly, roughly 3000 ballots got tossed out because of these time constraints, including in very close races. It also said that this situation more or less prevents hand recounts from being possible due to the same time constraints? It doesn't make sense to me to have rules like that when you're trying to run a legitimate election, so please correct me if I misread it. edit - wording

sublupo 8y ago
The reason that they have time limits is to prevent what just happened. After the time limit was over, candidate A had more votes. The people in charge of the polling stations were supporters of B (is this information important?). After the time limit they "found" more uncounted votes. However since the time limit was up, something illegal happened. Should we let the organizers "find" more votes (possibly illegally, possibly due to incompetence). Should we invalidate legal votes because the people in charge of the polls are incompetent? The current solution is to have an elected official appoint the overseers of the polls. If the overseers do something that could make election fraud easier (like "finding" votes after counting some of them), then the people in charge are fired.
- spicyusername 8y ago
  The fact that "finding more votes" is even technically possible highlights a problem.