According to YaHoo! Search an "Udge" is a type of aircraft...
Unless perhaps they mean Govind Namdev Udge...
Posted on 10/17/2016 3:08:40 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Calling the state's current law "illogical" and "bizarre," a federal judge late Sunday ordered the state of Florida to give thousands of voters a chance to make sure their vote-by-mail ballots are counted.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled that county election offices should notify voters if their signature on a vote-by-mail ballot and their voter registration forms don't match. Voters would then be given a chance to fix the problem by 5 p.m. the day before the election.
The Florida Democratic Party sued the state because currently voters who don't sign their vote-by-mail ballot are given a chance to fix it. But voters whose signatures don't match aren't told about the problem until after the election is over and their ballot is discarded.
Walker said that makes the law unconstitutional.
"It is illogical, irrational, and patently bizarre for the state of Florida to withhold the opportunity to cure from mismatched-signature voters while providing that same opportunity to no-signature voters," Walker wrote. "And in doing so, the state of Florida has categorically disenfranchised thousands of voters for no reason other than they have poor handwriting or their handwriting has changed over time."
Meredith Beatrice, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Ken Detzner, said state officials were reviewing the decision.
It is not clear exactly how many voters would be affected by the decision. But more than 23,000 vote-by-mail ballots were rejected by Florida election officials during the 2012 presidential election where President Barack Obama carried the state by slightly more than 74,000 votes.
Nearly 513,000 Floridians have already voted by mail according to data compiled by the Florida Division of Elections. And another 2.4 million vote-by-mail ballots have been requested.
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Hard to say.. what is an "Udge"?
Boom Zap Pow Udge!
Florida election officials should safeguard those “signature doesn’t match” ballots. Those that the notified voters don’t respond (or, even more importantly, respond and say they did not cast an absentee ballot) should be investigated for fraud.
Florida should Ignore this judge.
Have them sign it in person. If it doesn’t match then the sheriff’s deputy standing by will arrest you. Still want to sign it?
Same thing with mail ballots in Tarrant county (Fort Worth), Texas. The State AG is invesitgating why and how a bunch of mail ballots came in where the names on the envelopes don’t match the names on the ballots INSIDE those envelopes.
Seems some DNC operatives can’’t properly stuff envelopes. I hope they hang.
guarantee?
They’re talking about the return envelope which the ballot is sent back in. It needs to be certified by the voters signature on the outside. Once the envelope is received and the signature is verified, it is opened and ballot counted when determined by the election commissioner. Uncertified and unsigned envelopes don’t get opened or counted.
Thanks for the info.
According to YaHoo! Search an "Udge" is a type of aircraft...
Unless perhaps they mean Govind Namdev Udge...
Boom! Zap! Wow! Aflac!
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