DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. – On Thursday, the Duval County Elections Office will perform a “Voting System Audit” for November’s General Election.
This is a state requirement to make sure all the voting systems and processes worked properly.
Election officials will pick a race from at least one random precinct and tally up the votes.
Duval County saw over 470,000 voters turnout for the November election which is good for about 73% turnout.
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Election records in Duval show over 1,400 provisional ballots were rejected during this election cycle. That’s including 55 ballots flagged because voters had already cast a vote.
Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said the increase doesn’t signal voter fraud but highlights concern some voters had about their ballots being counted.
That is partly because they requested a mail-in ballot and filled it out but didn’t know if it would make it back in time.
Thursday’s audit will look at a Florida Supreme Court Justice Retention race and include an audit of Precincts 1206 & 1309.
The audit is public, and it’s expected to start around 1:15 p.m. at the Election Center on One Imeson Park Blvd.
It will be a manual tally of each vote and is expected to go until around 5:30 p.m.
After the audit, the canvassing board has until Dec. 15 to provide a report with the results of the audit to the Department of State.
That report will detail:
- The overall accuracy of audit
- A description of any problems or discrepancies encountered.
- The likely cause of such problems or discrepancies.
- Recommended corrective action to avoid or mitigate such circumstances in future elections