Let the snowbirds decide!

Naturally, a lot of talk going on about those absentee ballots in the 20th Congressional district race. They’ll be decisive.

(For the record: despite some chicken little talk within the GOP, there is absolutely no evidence or even suggestion so far of vote tampering or inappropriate activity…none.)

The Board of Elections has released some numbers, which suggest that the military component of that vote will be fairly small: only about 10% of the ballots mailed out were sent to service-members.

And this is key: Only 170 out of roughly 6,300 ballots returned so far came from military members. (More will come in before the mid-April deadline.)

This matters because the Republican side is convinced that military voters will give them an edge.

Which means that this race is in the hands of the snowbirds! Think of it as another controversial Florida election!