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Related: About this forumProblems in Orange County, FL. Voters told to come back later..
LATEST: Problems prompt Orange to request voting hours extensionORANGE COUNTY
3:20 p.m.: Update from reporter Amanda McKenzie:
The Orange County Supervisor of Elections contacted the Secretary of State at about 2 p.m. to request that voting be extended until 8 p.m. for 52 affected precincts. Those precincts are in Apopka, Maitland, Belle Isle, Ocoee, Windermere and Winter Park.
It affects both Republican ballots and Democratic ballots.
Polls close in the Florida Panhandle at 8 p.m. EST. We're now waiting for a decision from the Governor's Office.
Bill Cowles says this an Orange County issue, not statewide. An error in the printing order made in December is to blame.
The county mixed up the order numbers for ballots that included municipal elections. The county got more city ballots than presidential ballots.
Many precincts had to turn people away and tell them to come back later.
The Supervisor of Elections office on Kaley Avenue is now open for people to cast their votes in light of this. Hundreds of ballots are being printed there to be delivered to the precincts.
The express votes for people with disabilities are now open to all voters.
If you will not be able to return to your precinct to cast your vote, you are encouraged to call the Supervisor of Elections office, 407-836-8683 (VOTE) to get an absentee ballot.
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Problems in Orange County, FL. Voters told to come back later.. (Original Post)
madfloridian
Mar 2016
OP
The decision will be based on which way the majority in those pcts usually votes.
lpbk2713
Mar 2016
#1
Well, it IS Florida, after all. Nobody in Florida seems to know how to do elections. n/t
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2016
#3
lpbk2713
(42,774 posts)1. The decision will be based on which way the majority in those pcts usually votes.
(But we aren't supposed to know that.)
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)2. I don't like the feel of this. The Ruling Class can't lose Florida. nm
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)3. Well, it IS Florida, after all. Nobody in Florida seems to know how to do elections. n/t
Uncle Joe
(58,524 posts)4. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.
royable
(1,266 posts)5. Not just Democratic voters having trouble. General incompetence?
From the above link, I note, with a little surprise, that "Earlier today, some precincts did not get the correct number of Republican ballots and ran out."
Perhaps this is all fallout from the dumbing down of our educational system... Who can be expected to count, these days? Isn't that what computers are for?
Edited to add 1) 2) thank you, madfloridian!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)6. The sarcasm thingie is found in "smilies' by hitting the ...
royable
(1,266 posts)8. Thanks for helping me locate the sarcasm gif NT
ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)7. NO SURPRISE From Me! It's A Wonder People Vote In Our
state these days! Always some ERROR or another THING!
DrDan
(20,411 posts)10. Florida will vote . . . no doubt about that . . .
ranked 16th in the last presidential election in voter turnout
and I am quite confident the correct candidate will carry Florida by a wide margin
earthshine
(1,642 posts)9. The more confusion they create, the easier it is to steal elections.
It's a paraphrase a quote I heard from Randi Rhoads some years ago.