Polk, Sarasota Mail Incomplete Absentee Ballots

[Dr.Phool]

Source: MSNBC---TBO.com

By Tbo.Com --
Tampa Bay Online
updated 45 minutes ago

Elections officials in two local counties have mailed absentee ballots to voters with races missing.

In Polk County, a race was left off some 40,000 absentee ballots.

In Sarasota County, the elections office mailed out ballots to 69 voters in a particular North Port precinct that is split between two Florida House of Representatives districts. A Florida Senate race was left off the ballot. As of Thursday, 40 voters had noticed the mistake and returned their ballots.

Missing from the Sarasota County ballots was the hotly contested Senate race between Democrat Morgan Bentley and Republican Nancy Detert.

Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent, said the elections office is mailing corrected ballots to the 69 voters. Officials will discard the original ballots and count only the corrected ones.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27339162

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Can we get ANYTHING right in Floriduh?

Go get'em Madfloridian! That's your county!

[YDogg]

1. Although the MSNBC article doesn't say it ...

... I believe the race left off the Polk ballots was for re-election/appointment of a sitting judge. The SOE office distributed an additional ballot to absentee voters with just that one part. Although it is rather dispiriting that the SOE didn't get the initial absentee ballots right, at least it wasn't what most consider a major race or initiative.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Just downright incompetent.

We got our ballots in Pasco a month ago, and everything was fine.

[JimDandy]

3. Oh good grief - another Kathy Dent foul-up.

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