Absentee Ballots Go Missing in Florida's Broward County

NPR | By Ari Shapiro

Published October 28, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Election officials in Florida are scrambling to explain what happened to 58,000 absentee ballots requested by Broward residents but never delivered to them. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

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