As of the latest numbers I am seeing, around 716,500 people showed up to vote in Broward.
Link - https://tqv.vrswebapps.com/?state=FL&county=BRO
They have counted around 707,000 votes for governor. That would indicate less than 10,000 votes left to count for any sane jurisdiction. Of course, we are talking about Broward so I digress.
However, for the US Senate race there have only been 682,100 votes recorded, or almost 25,000 "undervotes". Please read the article at 538, there are a few rational explanations here:
(1) some people surely did "undervote" the US Senate race, intentionally omitting to vote for either candidiate. However, the "undervote" rate in Broward is off the charts compared to every other county in the state so it is unlikely voter action explains much of the issue here.
(2) a scanner error. I really doubt this as I looked at the precinct data for all 575+ precincts in Broward (data dump and played with the numbers). There were US Senate undervotes in all but ONE of those precincts. And the undervote rate is generally consistent across the precincts. I assume they scan the ballots at each precinct to count them? If so the odds of this being machine error are basically nil.
3) ballot design. As 538 shows, the US Senate race was kind of buried beneath some of the voting instructions. A few people on Election Day commented they almost skipped over it.
I don't think its fraud that they mocked up some Gillum only ballots, as DeSantis had a bigger lead. Also poor ballot design would also explain why there were fewer undervotes on lesser races on the ballot than the US Senate, which ordinarily would be unheard of.
This is looking more and more like there were just a bunch of people in Broward who overlooked the Senate race on a very long Florida ballot. To be clear I have little sympathy as I believe both parties have to approve the ballot and it really isn't that hard to fill out the ballot properly.
I you show up at the polls not knowing your state senate seat is on the ballot, then you are a moron. If you can’t find it on the ballot, or don’t have the capacity to ask someone, then you are a double moron.
“Shiny objects distracted me and I voted for Buchanan”
Here we go again - this year’s version of the “butterfly ballot.”
Why wouldn’t they have read a sample ballot sent to them previously, as in other states?
Does Florida mail out a sample ballot to registered voters?
So is this going to end up in SCOTUS?
I was watching when Karl Rove picked up on that Tuesday night.
If there was one minute where any ballots were unsecured and not in the presence of a GOP observer the entire county’s votes should be thrown out. That should be the penalty for this crime (plus prison).
Broward County = Brenda Snipes. Absolutely anything is possible.
Yeah - who would be more likely to be ignorant of such an important item on the ballot and leave it unmarked - Dem or Repub....nice theory but fit for fertilizer as an excuse.
Is it possible for people in the Broward County Election Supervisor’s office to fill-in a vote for Nelson?
If people are able to get their hands on the ballots, what is to stop a person from looking at the ballot and seeing that a person voted for Gillum to then conclude that person also meant to vote for Nelson?
Of course, if a person voted from DeSantis but did not vote for Scott, then there would be no reason to change the vote because that person definitely did not want Scott as Senator.
Florida counties are in charge of designing their own ballots, theoretically subject to State guidelines.
Broward County’s Elections Queen Brenda Snipes was ultimately in charge of the ballot design for Broward.
The ballots were designed contrary to State requirements, and obscured the Senate race at the bottom of a page with the marking area on the opposite side from all the other races and issues.
Speculation:
By intention, thousands did not notice the Senate race and did not mark a selection. Optical reading machines read this as an undervote (since it was). Brenda Vote Factory Team has taken the unmarked ballots and marked them with votes for Nelson. They will be hand counted, and the errors will be attributed to machines misalignment. Election stolen. This is why Snipes illegally maintained secrecy.
It’s not hard to figure this out: She