JaxVotes – News4Jax’s Election Blog

Duval elections supervisor Jerry Holland feels it was a very successful  election..  he did not get the turn out he predicted  of 80 %  but it will be in the 70’s    he does think early voting helped and believes it could be expanded in the future…

   With Polls closed   some people barely made it to  cast their vote.   One woman told me a train stop her  … She just made it …  Yet one young man   Jamarr Clark  didn’t..  He was  sad he didn’t get to vote but says he understands  he just didn’t make it in time… 

  Meanwhile they are awaiting results at Supervisor of Elections office … they should release early voting and absentee results at 8 Pm

Jerry Holland says as of 5:30  no word if polls will stay open late… there was a false network report saying they would be extended… NOT happening at this point

While the supervisor of elections says  no  problems with voting.. It seems about 5 poll watcher had to be rejected from  various precincts .. They are only allowed to observe and not talk with voters.

So far  Jerry Holland tells us the day has been going well.   The problems have been few.   Some scanners have failed but they have been replaced.     He is still hoping for a 80% possibly 90% voter turnout.     The next thing to watch for will be what happens at 7 PM…  that is when the polls close.    The last person in line will be allowed to vote.. those that arrive at 7:01 or later  will be out of luck.    They will hand out numbers to those in line   and you must have a number to vote.    Holland says they will not release results until after 8 PM .. But if there are still people in line in Duval County  they will wait until they vote…   We are at the election center where they are still opening absentee ballots to be processed..  early votes and absentee votes will be the first to be  counted when polls close..  They have been fed into machines  just not counted.

I just voted at a southside poll. No line no problems. It was just before 8am. Woprkes sais line at first but its been steady. I have voted here for years and have stood in line for much smaller elections. It took. At the most. 5 min.

Early voting is over but absentee voting continues. ;Jerry holland just told us about 50 percent of people in jax have vote. 1155 absentees have been rejected. Holland says lines will be long tomorrow mainly am and pm. But during midday it should not be too bad

Canvassing board continues to look at absentee ballots   .. 1600 in question.. So far  500 ballots rejected.    Most for no signatures  others because they do not match.     The board will met though the weekend and Monday  and  Tuesday…  Democrat and Republican attorneys are also on hand.. Later today we will hear from one voter upset because her ballet has been rejected.

Canvassing board has rejected about 200 more absentee ballots. Voters did not sign enevelops. Also they remade about 80 ballot because people voted for more than one candidate. That race would not count but the ballot was remade to accept the races which were correct.

Duval co canvassing board meeting. They are reviewing about 16 hunred absentee ballots that0have oropblem. Currently they are rejecting several hundred that don’t have signatures