Federal Judge Gives Florida A Two-Day Extension

Broward County managed to complete its recount.

Palm Beach County? Not so much. There’s no way they’re going to make the 3 pm deadline.

Less than 12 hours until the #Florida #recount deadline…. no machines running here at Palm Beach County tabulation center. Where is everyone!? pic.twitter.com/pLn3rvVO0y

— Kara Duffy (@KaraDuffyCBS12) November 15, 2018

Wow! Just look at all that action! They’re hustlin’!

Hours away from the #Florida #election #recount. Here at the Palm Beach County tabulation center… silence. Supervisor of Elections said: “We’re doing everything in our human power possible to make this happen.” pic.twitter.com/c0iicm9fl2

— Kara Duffy (@KaraDuffyCBS12) November 15, 2018

Like I said. There’s not way they’ll make the deadline.

MEANWHILE…

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were rejected because of signature issues will have two additional days to resolve the problems and possibly get their votes included.

“The precise issue in this case is whether Florida’s law that allows county election officials to reject vote-by-mail and provisional ballots for mismatched signatures — with no standards, an illusory process to cure, and no process to challenge the rejection — passes constitutional muster,” Judge Mark Walker wrote in his decision, obtained by The Washington Post. “The answer is simple. It does not.”

The decision comes just ahead of the Thursday afternoon deadline for a machine recount.

The ruling will matter most in the state’s still too-close-to-call Senate race, where Gov. Rick Scott (R) has a razor-thin lead over incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D).

This is like the never-ending election. I’m over it.

h/t The Hill