Recount will be Saturday for Supervisor of Elections race
Office attempts to reach 462 whose ballots had errors
The only Broward race with results so close that it triggered a recount is, ironically, the race for Supervisor of Elections. A recount will happen Saturday in a process expected to take at least eight hours.
Of the six-person race for the job, Joe Scott is leading with 24.84% of the vote, or 51,557 votes. Chad Klitzman received 24.54% of the vote, or 50,950 votes.
If the difference is less than .5% that means a machine recount, which happens in this situation, said Steven J. Vancore, a Broward elections spokesman. If the difference is less than .25%, there will be a hand recount.
There are still uncounted votes in Broward. The office got deluged by 14,000 ballots returned Tuesday that had been mailed out. Of those, 462 had problems, such as missing signatures — required for ballots sent by mail — or signatures that didn’t match the ballot, like when a well-meaning spouse signs for someone else.
Vancore said the office was trying to reach those people by “fax, email, phone call, postcard” to get the ballot issue fixed.
The recount will happen by rereading cartridges in all 577 precincts.
“It’s quite a process,” said.
Scott couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday despite multiple attempts.
Klitzman said he will be watching the recount in person Saturday. He said he there’s also a “decent amount of undervotes,” which happens when the race for Elections Supervisor wasn’t counted at all. That means people either deliberately left it blank or the machine didn’t register a response even though somebody voted.
“Obviously it’s stressful but it’s critical every vote is counted,” he said Wednesday. All voters’ voices must be “heard and that takes time.”