With counties across Florida in the middle of a hand recount for statewide races, Broward thought its recount in in the US Senate race was complete on Friday.
Early on Saturday, Broward County's recount of 22,000 ballots cast in the race for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture saw a hiccup and came to an abrupt stop when officials noticed volunteers had mixed 47 manila envelopes from the Senate recount in with those to be hand counted for the commissioner race, Fox News reported.
'It appears there may have been some ballots from yesterday mixed in with the ones for today,' Broward Canvassing Board Judge Deborah Carpenter-Toye said.
Early on Saturday, Broward County's recount of 22,000 ballots cast in the race for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture came to an abrupt stop
Officials noticed volunteers had mixed 47 manila envelopes from the Senate recount in with those to be hand counted for the commissioner race
Democrat Nikki Fried prematurely called the race against Republican Matt Caldwell for the Florida Cabinet post of agriculture commissioner, last Saturday.
Had the mix-up not been caught, some ballots cast for commissioner may have been counted twice, but Broward County Canvassing Board Attorney Rene Harrod said the issue was caught in time and that none of the 47 envelopes were double counted in that race.
Joe Goldstein, a Republican lawyer, demanded that the recount be stopped but the canvassing board voted to continue counting. They also told volunteers that they needed to flag any incorrect ballots from counts on Saturday.
Last Saturday, Democrat Nikki Fried prematurely called the race against Republican Matt Caldwell for the Florida Cabinet post of agriculture commissioner
Joe Goldstein, a Republican lawyer, demanded that the recount be stopped but the canvassing board voted to continue counting. They also told volunteers that they needed to flag any incorrect ballots from counts on Saturday
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes said that 2,040 ballots had been 'misfiled,' in a video posted by The South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Saturday.
'We have been trying to determine what could have caused the drop. What we believe is that in the recount area ... I believe those ballots were probably mixed in with another stack,' Snipes told the elections Canvassing Board at midday.
'The ballots are in the building. The ballots are in this building. There would be nowhere else for them to be. But they are misfiled in this building.'
State officials ordered a manual recount on Thursday after a machine recount showed less votes in the county than the total number of votes reported to the state on November 10.
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes explains to the canvassing board the discrepancy in vote counts during the hand count at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office in Lauderhill, Fla., on Saturday
Broward County has historically been a Democratic stronghold, but the machine recount on Thursday had Republican Gov. Rick Scott leading incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson by about 12,600 votes for one of the state's US Senate seats.
Florida's history of election woes dates back to 2000, when it took more than five weeks for the state to declare George W. Bush the victor over Vice President Al Gore by 537 votes, thus giving Bush the presidency. Back then, punch-card ballots were punch lines. Photos of election workers using magnifying glasses to search for hanging chads and pregnant chads symbolized the painstaking process.
There are no chads this year, but there are plenty of cracks about flashbacks to the Bush-Gore contest. And, just as in 2000, the Republican candidates in the contested races have declared themselves winners and asked for the recount to stop.
Add to this a litany of other voting problems: Palm Beach County's tallying machines went on the fritz during the recount due to age and overwork. The electricity went out in Hillsborough County during a machine recount and resulted in an 846-vote deficit. Broward County missed the state deadline to turn in recount results by two minutes.
Those glitches led U.S. District Judge Mark Walker to ask why state officials have repeatedly failed to anticipate problems in elections.
'We have been the laughingstock of the world, election after election, and we chose not to fix this,' he said. Walker is presiding over several election-related lawsuits that have been filed since Nov. 6.
On Friday, election workers in all 67 counties began recounting by hand about 93,000 ballots that were not recorded by voting machines. Many counties finished up the Senate recount on the first day. All results are supposed to be turned in by Sunday at noon. State officials will officially certify the totals next week.
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Main photo article With counties across Florida in the middle of a hand recount for statewide races, Broward thought its recount in in the US Senate race was complete on Friday.
Early on Saturday, Broward County’s recount of 22,000 ballots cast in the race for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture saw a hiccup...
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