It’s incompetence on display down there in Broward County.
They actually finished the machine recount and uploaded their vote totals to the Secretary of State, but did it two minutes late. TWO.
So it didn’t count. Thus, the Secretary of State had to use the vote totals from the election night. Is there anything they can’t screw up in that county?
Another county also didn’t turn in votes because they chose not to do so.
In Hillsborough County, the officials were perfectly clear: They flatly refused to submit the recounted numbers even though they had them on time.
Today at 3 p.m. was the deadline for counties to submit the totals for their machine recounts. Hillsborough successfully counted all the ballots, and then didn’t like the outcome: It was a lower total number of votes.
“[W]e are not willing to accept that votes go unreported,” said Democratic Elections Supervisor Craig Latimer. The recount would have shrunk Democrat Nelson’s countywide lead by 146 votes according to the Tampa Bay Times, thus increasing Rick Scott’s statewide lead.
Forget the law. They’re Democrats so they just do whatever the heck they want.
At the end of the day it’s moot, as a hand recount was issued by the SOS so we’ll know Sunday night who is victorious.