This really adds nothing to our understanding of the situation (if you're new, let me catch you up to speed.. Republicans are crooks), but just to note for the record...
Hundreds of people have called the county elections office to complain that they never got their ballots. The phone system was so overwhelmed some frustrated voters could not get through.
The county election office said the problem involved ballots mailed on Oct. 7-8, though the number of those actually missing was uncertain. Some absentee ballots mailed on those dates have already been returned to be counted.
``We are trying to determine what occurred and whether there was any kind of criminal violation,'' said Paige Patterson-Hughes, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
The county blamed the U.S. Postal Service. ``That is something beyond our control,'' Deputy Supervisor of Elections Gisela Salas said. ``We really have no idea what's going on.''
Postal officials said the post office was not to blame.
I tend to believe the Postal Service here. They lose remarkably little mail, and 58,000 of the same thing? Doesn't seem likely. That's a damn lot of ballots.
