1200+ ballots still outstanding in close Congressional race.
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I don’t know how this happens because in our municipality the absentee ballots are fed into the machines on the day of the election, so they are already counted. I thought the GAB insistes that everyone does this.
But I know that the box where I worked on Tuesday didn’t turn in their ballots for final count (the canvass) until yesterday afternoon because we had a discrepancy of 1 (one) ballot. That might account for the 300+ ballots in Ozaukee County. We had 354 ballots cast and a count of 355. We never did reconcile it despite recounting 13 times on 3 days.
“I don’t know how this happens because in our municipality the absentee ballots are fed into the machines on the day of the election, so they are already counted. I thought the GAB insistes that everyone does this.”
Exactly! That’s how we do it! Grrrrrrrrrr!
Here’s how this madness happens ... there is no uniformity in voting.
ID EVERYONE. Expand voting. If you are properly ID’d the State should do whatever it can to make sure people can vote. Staff voting areas well. Give a week or two for voting.
Once you are confirmed to be an American Citizen and eligible then the State should do ALL it can to ensure people can vote. Weekends, late night, etc. THAT is what a real Democracy does.
While I am so with the GOP on voter ID, I do not like the restriction of hours, fewer voting booths and precincts, etc that seems to be running rampant. At a minimum, voting should be over a weekend.
The polling place I worked at had a minor discrepancy, too, but it was the other way around. The machine showed one more ballot than we’d had voters, but there were 8 people watching the machine during the time the counts started not matching, including me, and none of use could figure out when or how it happened. I’m kind of thinking the machine glitched, it’s a new system.
The city clerk is still investigating last I heard. I know she emailed me about the registrations I did to make sure they were all kosher.