If Florida wants to redeem itself and demonstrate that it isn’t an embarrassment to democracy, it’s off to a really bad start.
About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won’t count.
A Florida law that took effect July 1 eliminates the requirement that a witness sign an absentee voter’s ballot.
Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said she and other elections employees didn’t notice that a paragraph of instructions on the return envelope for the ballot included a sentence stating that “failure to sign this certificate and have my signature property (sic) witnessed will invalidate my ballot.”
That’s right; they’re giving 22,000 largely-Democratic voters in Palm Beach false information about how to register their votes…and they can’t spell “properly” correctly.
Be afraid.