Florida County Says Absentee Ballots Missing

Oh, no. Not again!

Via Associated Press:

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Up to 58,000 absentee ballots may never have reached the Broward County voters who requested them more than two weeks ago, election officials said, and state police are investigating.

Hundreds of people have called the county elections office to complain that they never got their ballots. The phone system was so overwhelmed some frustrated voters could not get through.

The county election office said the problem involved ballots mailed on Oct. 7-8, though the number of those actually missing was uncertain. Some absentee ballots mailed on those dates have already been returned to be counted.

“We are trying to determine what occurred and whether there was any kind of criminal violation,” said Paige Patterson-Hughes, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. [Continued...]