An audit by a right-leaning nonprofit flagged nearly 24,000 voter files in
Florida’s Palm Beach County because of issues that include registrations in multiple states, double voting, voting on behalf of the dead, and registrations by “apparent” noncitizens.
“The issues found indicate that efforts at list maintenance over the years have either been lax, inconsistent, ignored or ineffective,” the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) stated in a November report (
pdf).
Palm Beach County, where nearly 967,000 voters were registered as of Nov. 1 (
pdf), was criticized after the 2018 midterms for failing to complete state-mandated recounts by the deadline.
The county’s then-
elections chief, Susan Bucher, was rebuked by a judge for allowing her staff to duplicate improperly completed ballots.
By state law, the task can only be entrusted to the canvassing board, which must include a county court judge.
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