Despite having put in two requests, I still haven't gotten my absentee ballot. It doesn't look like I'm going to, either:
The Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office pointed a finger at the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday for nearly 60,000 missing absentee ballots, but took the blame for having a phone system that was being overwhelmed by calls from frustrated voters.
While the post office denied responsibility for the missing ballots, Broward County commissioners, anxious to avoid another failed election, offered to send county employees to help with the phones. Dozens of employees could begin assisting the elections office today to answer telephone calls and to process voters at the 14 early voting sites.
Due to the ousted SOE's being both crazy and retarded, County employees from other divisions were called in to help the SOE's office two years ago during an election. A new SOE is in place and yet County employees are still supplementing the SOE office. The SOE is an elected official and has her own budget separate from the County's. When is that office going to get its sh*t together? They should go study how they do it in Afghanistan, or something.
Posted by floridacracker at October 27, 2004 08:24 PM