From the Pages of Orlando Weekly: Elections officials in Florida ask voters to be patient this year
• Florida elections officials are counseling voters to be patient this year. Some experts suggest thinking of this as “election season,” rather than focusing on Election Day. The era of Tuesday-night returns and a tidy result on Wednesday morning is probably a thing of the past. The pandemic means an unprecedented number of voters are opting to cast ballots by mail in Florida and throughout the nation. Supervisors of elections and public-interest groups are trying to spread the word that it could take days to get a final tally in the race between Biden and Trump. Trump has repeatedly demanded that a winner of the Nov. 3 election be determined by the end of Election Day. Florida elections supervisors point out …
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