Did Duval County Officials Make an All-Out Effort to Steal the Election?
The most significant county is Duval, where a horrendously designed two-page ballot resulted in 21,942 certified overvotes; and where, according to Assistant Supervisor of Elections Richard Carlberg, not one of the 81 machine-counted write-in votes yielded a vote for a qualified write-in candidate. In Duval County, the sample ballots included incorrect instructions to vote on every page — without making an exception for the two-page list of presidential candidates. The major-party candidates were listed on the first page. The “write-in” hole was on the second page.14 –> An inexperienced voter might, therefore, satisfy the instructions by marking a candidate’s name on page 1 then punching a hole next to the write-in instructions on page 2. To make matters worse, unlike Lee County and the vast majority of Florida counties, Duval County did not include legally mandated [FAC 1S-20031(4)]14 instructions to the voter on its ballot. Those instructions should have told voters where to write t
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