And we think that is the issue that is before the court now, which is a contest of that election where we have identified separately, five groups of ballots that we believe either should have been received and were not, or in one case were received and should not have been, under specific Florida state law.
We know it from essentially every piece of evidence that we have that there are ballots that the machine cannot read but from which the voter intent can be discerned by a manual review.... Let me turn now to Miami-Dade, and in Miami-Dade we have two groups of ballots.
The second group of ballots in Miami-Dade are the 9,000 ballots that have never been counted by a human being.
The largest group of ballots, more than 9,000 from Miami-Dade County, was assembled in the Leon County Public Library, where eight county court judges began examining them this morning.
It was not enough for Appellants to identify a specially selected group of ballots and allege that they should have been counted.
The conflict involved a group of ballots from the 73rd Assembly District, which lies in the heart of the East Side, roughly from East 41st Street to East 96th Street.
That still leaves another group of ballot papers—supposedly 4,000 of them which carry her name but where the voters failed to mark the necessary "bubble" (or box).
After the last group of contested ballots from the March 20 special election was counted, a Republican, David Storobin, emerged with a 27-vote lead over the Democratic candidate, City Councilman Lewis A. Fidler.
Second, and more importantly, by failing to examine the specifically identified group of uncounted ballots that is claimed to contain the rejected legal votes, the trial court has refused to address the issue presented.
Golos, Russia's most prominent election monitoring group, documented 45 cases of "carousel voting," in which groups of voters using absentee ballots are shuttled between polling places to vote repeatedly.
Several Republican-controlled states took the Court's decision as an invitation to rewrite their election laws, purportedly to address the (nonexistent) problem of voter fraud but in fact to limit the opportunities for Democrats and minorities (overlapping groups, of course) to cast their ballots.
