According to the rules-—
The supervisor of elections shall verify the signature of each elector on the return mailing envelope with the signature on the elector’s registration records. Such verification may commence at any time prior to the canvass of votes.
The supervisor of elections shall safely keep the ballot unopened in his or her office until the county canvassing board canvasses the vote.
(6) The canvassing board may begin the canvas¬sing of mail ballots at 7 a.m. on the sixth day before the election, including processing the ballots through the tabulating equipment.
However, results may not be released until after 7 p.m. on election day. Any canvassing board member or election employee who releases any result before 7 p.m. on election day commits a felony of the third degree,
https://dos.myflorida.com/media/699702/election-code.pdf
“According to the rules-—”
I know, but unfortunately, it doesn’t matter what the rules are - and that is what’s going on.
They have the established narrative of racism - voter ID is racist - not counting ‘all the votes’ is racist - there were ‘hurdles’ for the black community, and so on.
And they have the party, the candidates, and the well-trained civil rights attorneys pushing that narrative.
Your talking about ABSENTEE BALLOTS. Normal ballots are counted during the election by the AS200 Ballot Scanner and at close down the ballots in the Provisional ballots are put in envelopes and added at the poll no where else there is a huge canvas bag in the bottom of the AS200 and all ballots fall in there as they are scanned. At the finish 2 runs are done from the AS200 scanner 1 is folded and put in a sealed envelope. The 2nd run is taped to the outside wall of the Poll both are counter signed at the poll by at least 5 workers certifying these are the only ballots from a Polling Place