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https://www.wesh.com/article/thousands-of-senate-undervotes-discovered-in-crucial-florida-county/24852854

Quote:Thousands of senate undervotes discovered in crucial Florida county


BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. —
As the race for U.S. Senate, governor and agriculture commissioner appear to be headed to recounts, a strange anomaly has surfaced.


In Broward county, Senate undervotes appear on nearly 4 percent of all ballots. That’s ballots where a vote was not counted for U.S. Senate, despite votes being cast in other races.

What makes the anomaly even stranger, is that it appeared in a county that Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum desperately needed to score well in.


A WESH 2 News analysis of votes cast in various races, shows 701,469 votes were cast in the governor’s race in Broward.


Yet, just 676,706 votes were cast in the Senate race. This discrepancy appears despite the fact that the Senate race was at the top of the ballot.


It means 24,763 more votes were cast for governor than for Senate.


In fact, more people voted in the cabinet races than they did in the U.S. Senate race.


In the entire state, there were 35,155 senate undervotes. That means there were 24,763 Senate undervotes in Broward County and just 10,392 Senate undervotes in Florida’s 66 other counties.


A recount could reveal a reading error in one or more voting machines, which could explain it.


The implications appear less favorable for Gillum. In a county in which Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 3 to 1, and with Republican Rick Scott leading Nelson by less than 18,000 votes, Broward’s anomaly could ultimately yield the number of votes Nelson needs win.


Another explanation is that 24,763 voters decided they liked neither Scott nor Nelson and decided to focus only on State and local races.


Calls to the office of Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes were not returned.