Fire Marshall Bill and Lurch neck-and-neck and at each other's throats.
I'd say a major priority for the new Congress to take up in January is our failing election system. But, I bet they won't, and we'll have all these same problems in 2020.A judge in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday ordered the county's top elections official to turn over to the county canvassing board a trove of ballots deemed faulty by local officials, delivering a key legal victory to Gov. Rick Scott's (R) Senate campaign.
The ruling by Chief Judge Krista Marx came in response to a lawsuit filed by Scott's campaign late Thursday alleging that Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher's office had withheld crucial information about vote counts.
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Marx ruled that Bucher's office violated state public records laws and ordered it to hand over "overvoted" and "undervoted" absentee ballots deemed defective by county election officials to the canvassing board for review before they are counted.
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Scott declared victory in the race after early vote returns showed him in the lead earlier this week. But that lead shrunk on Wednesday and Thursday as more votes trickled in from Broward and Palm Beach — both Democratic strongholds.
As of Friday afternoon, fewer than 15,000 votes separated Nelson and Scott in the race — a margin of roughly 0.18 percentage points. If that margin holds at the time county election offices submit unofficial results to the Florida Division of Elections on Saturday, it will trigger a recount.
The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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