Florida Judge Cites 2000 to Stress Import of Close Votes
- A Florida judge lamented being asked to choose between tweaking the state’s election laws more than a week after Election Day or ignoring the votes of thousands of people whose mail-in ballots may have been wrongfully rejected over allegedly mismatched signatures. During a five-hour hearing in Tallahassee on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker was urged by a lawyer for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson to count an estimated 5,000 affected ballots, while a lawyer for the Florida Secretary of State said the suit was filed too late and ...
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