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More ballots turn up in Broward
By Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel
8:45 p.m. EST, November 12, 2012


Seven days after the election ended, and two days after the results were unofficially certified, Broward elections workers Monday said they had found 963 unaccounted-for ballots in a warehouse.

They were put in the wrong place, members of the Broward County Canvassing Board were told on Monday.

"How can you lose them? This is terrible,'' said Dania Beach candidate Chickie Brandimarte, whose close race won't be called until at least Tuesday.

Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes said it's customary for more votes to be added to the totals until the Nov. 18 final certification.

"Everybody who's been around for any period of time knows that managing paper is a chore, and you don't count it overnight,'' she said. "What we do, and we've found it beneficial, is to comb the entire plant looking for something that may have been put in the wrong place. It happens. And when we did that, that's when we identified [the additional] votes.''..............................>>>>............................>>>>..........................http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-broward-election-votes-found-20121112,0,4281740.story

Broward county DEMOCRAT votes not counted.


Twelve years after the 2000 Recount Disaster, the state was again in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons:
long lines, produced by an early voting period cut down from 14 days to 9 by the Republican-led state
legislature, precincts that ran out of ballots on Election Day, machines that broke down, and even disappearing
vote counts in Broward County — where the largest cache of Democratic votes in the state are to be found.
Just this week, more than 960 uncounted ballots were discovered in a warehouse in Broward, adding to the
counties many woes.