These timelines were created when they had near half the voters they do now.... wonder why the Florida Republican gvt, never revised the timeline to accommodate all of their voters?
why? Because the fewer legally cast votes that are counted, the better the chance Republicans win.... the more votes counted that were cast legally, the lesser chance of Repubs winning, I suppose...?
In 2000's recount all the judges laughed at the rules and the timelines, recount was going on a near month later.... missing timelines is NOT FRAUD.... it's making certain all votes are counted....
I sure as hell would not want my vote to be thrown out because a supervisor was overwhelmed and could not call in a vote count every 45 minutes or report a total 30 minutes after a poll closed....
that is utterly ridiculous and harmful to our democracy.
It is not harmful to a democracy...it is the cornerstone of a democracy.
It's called "Checks and Balances." It's called maintaining the integrity
of the election.
65 other counties reported their totals 30 minutes after the election...then
these two could do that also. They don't have to physically count the votes
just add the vote totals from each machine. Were not trying to orbit the moon. Just add up the vote totals in each voting place and call it in.
The Supervisor of elections just adds them all up. Now, that wench probably
struggles with that, but she should be competent and the residents of the
County should demand it, for fear of their vote not being counted.
btw...in 2000 the SCOTUS Justices didn't laugh. They stopped it.
They found that there was a violation of the Equal Protection clause,
because different counties were counting "dimples" or not counting
"dimples." They then ruled that because there wasn't time to start
over and complete by the deadline...The recount must end.
The Florida Legislature had already set a date (I forget the actual date)
that all votes must be counted or they would vote so as not to endanger
Florida losing its 25 electoral votes at the time.
This thing gets to the Supreme Court they will throw out all 78,000 of
those ballots in Broward County that appeared in a closest after the
election.