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Broward Voter Explains Why a Weird Ballot Helped Senator-Elect Rick Scott
Townhall.com ^ | November 12, 2018 | Myra Kahn Adams

Posted on 11/12/2018 8:55:09 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Sans-Culotte

Step one... end mail in and early voting, except legitimate absentees.
Step two... return to mechanical machines and voting roll books requiring real signatures.Lock and secure machines within 15 minutes of the last voter’s use.
Step three... end provisional ballots. If a person is not listed on an election district’s rolls...tuff! suffa!


21 posted on 11/12/2018 9:20:38 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Sans-Culotte
During the 2000 Florida fiasco, there were allegedly more votes for Pat Buchanan than there should have been. Supposedly, a lot of voters thought they were voting for Gore due to a confused ballot layout. It never ends.

The infamous "Butterfly Ballot"


22 posted on 11/12/2018 9:21:24 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: NEMDF

There are a lot of people voting who have no business voting.


23 posted on 11/12/2018 9:22:12 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kaslin

Given the author’s second point was math, he or she could have at least done it honestly.

Let’s go with the 25,000 undervotes. 70% to Nelson is indeed 17,500 but ignores the 7,500 Scott would have gotten. Precinct level analysis could possibly yield a more precise answer (not going “there” in terms of which side of the electorate would be more apt to screw up) but in all likelihood Nelson would still have lost.


24 posted on 11/12/2018 9:22:31 AM PST by Methos8
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To: dp0622

Bingo!!!!
Glad I saw the ballot picture as I had let my thoughts run wild on what it looked like.

Democrats need individual everything to make all come out their way!!!!!!!!!


25 posted on 11/12/2018 9:23:47 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

lol

I figured it was in 2 point font in the bottom corner in Swahili :)


26 posted on 11/12/2018 9:26:12 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Yo-Yo

I still feel so sad about all those disenfranchised Holocaust survivors who were too stupid to read a ballot. /s Sheldon.


27 posted on 11/12/2018 9:26:37 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Kaslin

The writer is wrong on many counts...First off the ballot was six pages long both sides in many areas....There are exactly 30 cities in all of Broward County which is 1,323 sq miles of land and water.61.13% of the registered voters bothered to vote at all. Per SOE where I work.Besides the folks running for jobs there were 14 Constitutional changes and 12 County changes to its constitution all included on the ballot designed by the Supervisor of elections thats dumb. If all who voted did so thru a as200 ballot Scanner that amounts to 4,277,040 pieces of paper. Each Pct at close does a computer run n 2 copies 1 to driver who picks up the equipment and the second carried by the Clerk of the PCT is there private car with seals attached on all bags 4-8 bags per pct.....Well I shall enlighten you this election as of the last announcement 712,840 people voted in Broward County at six (6) pages both sides that amounts to 4 million,277 thousand and forty pages of ballot form....in a county of 1, 843,152 people.....of which 593,540 are registered democrats, 252 thousand and twenty three are registered Republicans and three hundred twenty eight thousand eight hundred and sixty eight no party affiliation,,,,,,,,the people count who voted were increased by close to 50% overall...AND YOU DO REALIZE THERE ARE 608 Polling Locations in Broward County....an all cites had questions on the ballotts that were for that city alone....so as you can see this is a huge undertaking....


28 posted on 11/12/2018 9:30:28 AM PST by straps (Learn the system before you condemn it Politicians)
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To: Kaslin
It is yet to be determined if the 24,992 “undervote” was a “machine calibration” issue which will be resolved in the recount or poor design is the culprit. However, I distinctly remember that nanosecond when I thought the ballot design was counterintuitive, and initially missed the Senate voting square. Thus, I believe 24,992 Broward voters could have been “disenfranchised” from voting for a U.S. Senate candidate and that I was almost one of them!

UNDERVOTE IS A B.S. TERM - YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO FILL OUT AN ENTIRE BALLOT!

29 posted on 11/12/2018 9:34:08 AM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Kaslin

Does anyone else have questions about probability in regards to the razor-thin margins being reported? It doesn’t seem possible.


30 posted on 11/12/2018 9:39:30 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: dp0622

You need to ratchet that cynicism up a notch. They are unspecific as to genitalia now. You would have added that a few years ago.


31 posted on 11/12/2018 9:40:40 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: dp0622

LOL. What a joke! It’s hard to see the spot to vote for senator? Laughable! Then I must be a frigging genius because I’ve seen and voted easily from many ballots like that. Idiots! Let’s keep dumbing down our country for a bunch of morons.


32 posted on 11/12/2018 9:41:41 AM PST by BlueHorseShoe ( Let us all speak out, rise up, lead and conquer! IÂ’m)
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To: Kaslin

“because voting instructions in three languages”

OK, ENGLISH

SPANISH

????


33 posted on 11/12/2018 9:42:47 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: wastoute

And some guy DID recently sue to have his age of 68 changed to 45.

I THINK those were the ages. If i’m wrong, only a few years in either direction.

He lost, but the time will come when a case like that will win.

Thought it would wreak havoc on getting SS :)


34 posted on 11/12/2018 9:44:04 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BlueHorseShoe

Maybe we need coloring book ballots that you can take home for a week :)


35 posted on 11/12/2018 9:45:01 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: BlueHorseShoe

Truth is an awful lot of people are really dumb.


36 posted on 11/12/2018 9:45:45 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaughn)
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To: dp0622

LOL. Either you know how to read or your don’t.


37 posted on 11/12/2018 9:46:30 AM PST by jersey117
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To: dp0622

Of course it’s nuts. He is willing to for go his pension. It would help SS.


38 posted on 11/12/2018 9:48:20 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaughn)
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To: xkaydet65
Step one... end mail in and early voting, except legitimate absentees.

Why do people keep blaming this on early voting? Early voting has nothing to do with it. This is a scam perpetrated through the use of absentee and provisional ballots.

39 posted on 11/12/2018 9:48:49 AM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 https://twitter.com/TheRealDrew68)
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To: Kaslin

My chad is still hanging from the 2000 erection....errrrrr....election....


40 posted on 11/12/2018 9:50:15 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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