Right now, election staff is looking at vote-by-mail ballots and checking those that have problems — and new technology is helping with that.
News4JAX on Friday stopped by the Duval County Supervisor of Elections Office’s Election Center, where vote-by-mail ballots are being opened. Once they come in, they are fed through a tabulator.
For example, there is an overvote. That is when someone votes for two candidates in the same race. So election staff will remake the ballot with the voter’s selections for the rest of the races so those can be counted. Another example News4JAX saw was a voter clearly voted for one candidate in the property appraiser’s race, but there was a little bit of a circle that was filled in for another candidate.
“There are a lot of rules for voter intent. But the best advice I can give a voter is, if you’re trying to make a change on your ballot, just make that intent clear, scratch something out. And you know, you can put a little note on there, I don’t want to vote for this person,” said Chief Elections Officer Robert Phillips. “Don’t put your initials don’t put your name on anything because we don’t want to know who, you know, how an individual voted.
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