Judge fears 25,000 voters won't be eligible for Nov. 8 election
Source: Tampa Bay Times
TALLAHASSEE A federal judge is demanding an explanation from state officials at a hearing today about a backlog in the number of newly registered voters who haven't been verified in time so they can vote in Florida's election.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has been tracking the number of unverified applicants, which on Thursday was nearly 25,000 out of 125,000 who registered during a weeklong extension the judge granted after Hurricane Matthew this month.
"It appears that the amount of voters being processed each day has slowed dramatically," Walker wrote in an order late Thursday. "As of now, almost 25,000 voters may or may not have their vote counted in the 2016 general election."
The judge ordered Gov. Rick Scott's top elections official, Secretary of State Ken Detzner, to have his elections division director, Maria Matthews, available to face questions.
Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/by-the-numbers-breaking-down-the-early-voting-and-mail-ballots-across/2300191
The GOP cannot govern
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,499 posts)(by federal law)
DK504
(3,847 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,499 posts)INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS.
(a) Provisional Voting Requirements.--If an individual declares that
such individual is a registered voter in the jurisdiction in which the
individual desires to vote and that the individual is eligible to vote
in an election for Federal office, but the name of the individual does
not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the polling place
or an election official asserts that the individual is not eligible to
vote, such individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot as
follows:
(1) <<NOTE: Notification.>> An election official at the
polling place shall notify the individual that the individual
may cast a provisional ballot in that election.
(2) The individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional
ballot at that polling place upon the execution of a written
affirmation by the individual before an election official at the
polling place stating that the individual is--
[[Page 116 STAT. 1707]]
(A) a registered voter in the jurisdiction in which
the individual desires to vote; and
(B) eligible to vote in that election.
(3) An election official at the polling place shall transmit
the ballot cast by the individual or the voter information
contained in the written affirmation executed by the individual
under paragraph (2) to an appropriate State or local election
official for prompt verification under paragraph (4).
(4) If the appropriate State or local election official to
whom the ballot or voter information is transmitted under
paragraph (3) determines that the individual is eligible under
State law to vote, the individual's provisional ballot shall be
counted as a vote in that election in accordance with State law.
(5)(A) At the time that an individual casts a provisional
ballot, the appropriate State or local election official shall
give the individual written information that states that any
individual who casts a provisional ballot will be able to
ascertain under the system established under subparagraph (B)
whether the vote was counted, and, if the vote was not counted,
the reason that the vote was not counted.
(B) The appropriate State or local election official shall
establish a free access system (such as a toll-free telephone
number or an Internet website) that any individual who casts a
provisional ballot may access to discover whether the vote of
that individual was counted, and, if the vote was not counted,
the reason that the vote was not counted.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ252/html/PLAW-107publ252.htm
Igel
(35,274 posts)A lot of folks think provisional ballots are only processed if ... Well, perhaps never, perhaps only if the race is close, perhaps only if they are for sure from the correct political party, etc.
They're often the ones that think voter rolls should never be purged. So my uncle John, who died in 2008, should still be on the rolls where he lived (in every place that he lived, actually) unless he took steps to remove himself. Like that ever happened.
BumRushDaShow
(128,499 posts)jovi
(61 posts)it is FL after all. And I live on the treasure coast.
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)As dRumpf backers, they should be sentenced to the federal pen for this felony election tampering.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)book at them!
George II
(67,782 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)AllyCat
(16,152 posts)LisaL
(44,972 posts)To put this into perspective.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)PatSeg
(47,279 posts)Can't run an election without major issues. They've become America's embarrassing eccentric uncle.
cstanleytech
(26,236 posts)this an accident and thus another example of them being bad at governing or are they doing it deliberately to try and suppress voters? If they are doing it deliberately then its not an issue of being bad at governing it's an issue of them being criminal at it.
HAB911
(8,867 posts)but putting any in jail is the problem
HAB911
(8,867 posts)They are all crooks and liars and cheats
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)barbtries
(28,769 posts)based on the last 8 years of bullshit.