Veteran’s Rejected Ballot Becomes Part of Florida Senate Lawsuit
- Federal court schedules hearing on signatures for Wednesday
- Broward judge throws out Scott lawsuit for seizure of machines
An election worker prepares an electronic counting machine before a hearing at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office in Lauderhill, Florida, on Nov. 12.
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Democratic Florida Senator Bill Nelson’s lawyers cited a veteran’s rejected ballot in court to make the case that state laws let election workers arbitrarily reject ballots, amid a recount of last week’s voting that left Republican Rick Scott with a narrow lead.
The wrangling over the results in Florida’s Senate and governor’s races, which have implications for the 2020 presidential election, has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who claimed without evidence on Twitter that “missing or forged” ballots meant “an honest vote count is no longer possible.”