The top one marked "final", has the paragraph below. Seems like this may mean ballots must be cast and counted by the voting tabulation system? I could be way off but gave it a shot!
(a) “All ballots cast” means ballots cast and counted by the voting tabulation system whether at a precinct location, by vote-by-mail ballot including overseas vote-by-mail ballots, during the early voting period, or by provisional ballot.
Yeah, I was thinking maybe they were saying the only thing that is legal, instead of everything that is illegal. It sounds bad to say "it is illegal to hand-count ballots", they are always pulling confusing shit like that so thought maybe this was one of those cases.
I dug a bit, I am no lawfag but gave it a go. I found this: https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?title=ELECTIONS&ID=1S-2.053
The top one marked "final", has the paragraph below. Seems like this may mean ballots must be cast and counted by the voting tabulation system? I could be way off but gave it a shot!
(a) “All ballots cast” means ballots cast and counted by the voting tabulation system whether at a precinct location, by vote-by-mail ballot including overseas vote-by-mail ballots, during the early voting period, or by provisional ballot.
Yeah, I was thinking maybe they were saying the only thing that is legal, instead of everything that is illegal. It sounds bad to say "it is illegal to hand-count ballots", they are always pulling confusing shit like that so thought maybe this was one of those cases.