[frog in a pot]

That is interesting, and would effectively eliminate the first possibility which is simple copying by a state-level, back room ballot handler. Next in line would seem to be vendor error or corruption.

This election included U.S. senators and reps. Is that likely to be the federal identifier? If so, then the question is where the ballot would go for verification, and what sort of alarms would be sounded.

And then, the steps set out to handle such alarms at both state and fed levels. The objective, of course, in addition to curing any systemic defects, to drill down to specific actors and responsible individuals.

[Chode]

maybe some FL FReeper knows who to send this to and have it investigated