Earlier Tuesday, Circuit Judge David Tobin rejected a Republican request to set standards for the election board to use when evaluating ballots in Florida's most populous county. It's not my job to manage it. I'm not going to manage the minutiae of each ballot being counted. That's not my job. The county began mechanically sorting its punch-card ballots last Sunday, separating those with clear punch holes from the ballots in question.
Chads are the tiny bits of paper released when a ballot is punched.
R-N.Y. Meanwhile, Leahy said the county would not revisit the overseas ballots from military posts, as Democratic Attorney General Bob Butterworth had suggested Monday. Leahy said ballots rejected by the board for lack of a postmark or date could not be opened by law. But he acknowledged the envelope had no designated spot for a date, no one wrote in a date, and the only ones counted had postmarks. All Rights Reserved.