Seminole County ballots

[romberjo at SHU.EDU]

Where is the outcry from Republicans re: the Seminole ballots?  Florida law
quite specifically makes it illegal for anyone other than the voter, his
guardian, or family member to fill in the voter registration number on the
absentee ballot application.  The legislature imposed this rule, as per its
Article II mandate to chuse the method of election.   The legislature
decided that this rule was necessary as a prophylactic to prevent absentee
ballot fraud; wisely or unwisely, it drew a bright line that does not
require any evidence of actual fraud.  Seminole County wishes to sidestep
this clear legislative enactment -- to change the law after the election!
-- because it believes the illegality to be "technical"; bizarrely enough,
Seminole County believes that it can ascertain what the voter "really
intended" in submitting an insufficient application, and arrogantly
presumes that it has the equitable power to decide that making every
"reasonably ascertainable" vote count trumps the clear language of the
statute.  Seminole County has not only misinterpreted Florida law, it has
violated the Federal Constitution and 3 U.S.C. 5!

-- Jon Romberg
Seton Hall