Posted on 12/11/2018 1:53:54 AM PST by SMGFan
More than 6,000 mailed ballots in Florida went uncounted in November's midterm elections, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Officials at the Florida Department of State informed a federal judge last week that 6,670 ballots that were mailed in ahead of the November 6 midterm election were left uncounted because they arrived after Election Day.
Ballots mailed inside the U.S. must reach election offices by 7 p.m. on Election Day under current Florida law. It is not yet clear why the ballots did not make it to the election offices on time.
According to The Associated Press, the missing ballots came from 65 of Florida's 67 counties.
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Easy. Their jobs aren't next to the voting location.
Lots of workers aren't near home during the week. A few
examples would be Pilots, cross country truckers, temp
jobs out of area, construction workers, etc.
Mobile society and mobile workers aren't a rarity.
I believe they have to let you go for up to 4 consecutive hours, but they don’t have to pay you.
Also, I have had employers that frowned on any staff taking any time off for any reason, and one was known to release folks for taking time off for reasons *he* didn’t approve of.
He was a JW btw, and they don’t see voting the same way we do.
Law or not, he got away with it.
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