Despite looming deadline, Palm Beach elections didn't count ballots overnight

[mfcorey1]

RIVIERA BEACH

The Palm Beach County elections tabulation center was on pause Thursday morning — just hours before the 3 p.m. state deadline for submitting updated vote totals — despite being far behind schedule to finish recounts in the races for U.S. Senate, governor and commissioner of agriculture and consumer services.

The county shut off its ballot-counting machines Wednesday evening around 8 p.m. and hadn’t restarted them yet by 9 a.m. the next morning. The giant windowless warehouse where county workers have been frantically recounting ballots around the clock for five days was quiet and nearly empty on Thursday morning except for a small group of volunteers, lawyers and reporters.

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[Mike Rows His Boat]

1. Saw a local news (Broward) report that machines aren't working.

Constant overheating of logic circuits is causing errors in totals at the PB election center.

Looks like they’re going to have to revert to election night numbers.

[lostnfound]

2. "Only one person, an IT Manager, had been recounting ballots for several hours..." sent home

She “sent her information technology manager home because she said he had been awake for 42 hours and needed a break. The IT manager, Jeff Darter, had been the only county worker recounting ballots for several hours early Wednesday evening as the county struggled to reconcile mismatched vote totals.”

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article221685295.html#storylink=cpy

Wtf is wrong with this picture.
If only one guy can count the votes, can only one guy determine the election? Pretty powerful person there, Jeff.

[ProfessorPlum]

3. wtf

what a disgrace

[FloridaBlues]

4. Why didn't Scott the republican Gov for 8 yrs send them more money in budget for new machines?

This is terrible hope court extends date for all county's to get the results