This Broward County story is frustrating. So many people going all :thinking: at the fact that more votes have come in for one race compared to the other and deciding that means there must be FRAUD. So I'ma explain this concisely.
- People are correct that something odd is occurring in Broward. Almost 4% of ballots cast a vote for Governor yet did not cast a vote for the Senate race. That's not normal as it's well outside the data points of every other county in the state.
- Here is the Broward ballot
- If you'll notice the Senate race is tucked in the bottom left of the ballot under the instructions while the Governor race is front and center in the middle. It's a poor ballot layout (For example, mine had instructions at the top and then a grid with every race on it) and it means that almost 4% of people in Broward county skipped the instructions and began voting in the second column.
But media gets more clicks with big headlines like SOMETHING WEIRD IS GOING ON IN FLORIDA WHAT CAN IT MEAN?!!>!>! so instead of just explaining this in 30 seconds like I just did we have our next controversy.