Some expected to return today. There ought to be a way for a citizen who registered to vote . . . to be given a chance to register their vote. The Duval ballot listed presidential candidates on two pages instead of one page, as in previous elections. The two-page design likely caused nearly 22,000 people to cast more than one vote for president, nullifying their say in that race. Another nearly 5,000 ballots didn't register votes for president.
State law requires overvotes and undervotes to be left out of the count.
Republican George W. Bush won Duval County by about 44,000 votes. We had a good ballot, very easy to understand. The county's certified results were received by the state yesterday, apparently leaving a legal challenge the only method of protest, Stafford said. No hand count of ballots will proceed without a court's order, he said. The deadline to request a hand count was Friday.