Did Florida election officials accidentally trash uncounted ballots?

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Were_missing_Florida_ballots_thrown_out_0911.html

David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday September 11, 2008

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More than 3,000 ballots that went missing after a local primary election in Florida could have been inadvertently thrown out on election night, and there are calls for state officials to step in and take over elections operations in the chronically plagued Palm Beach County before November.

"Are the 3,478 missing ballots in a landfill? were they inadvertently thrown out by election officials who thought they were trash?" local anchor Tim Malloy asked in a Wednesday night broadcast. "NewsChannel 5 has exclusively learned that is the leading theory on officials' minds."

[ColbertWatcher]

1. "inadvertently" ! In Florida!? The hell you say! n/t

[kestrel91316]

2. You mean deliberately, don't you?

[tkmorris]

3. No, they didn't

They know enough not to admit to malfeasance when they can claim incompetence instead.