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Many out-of-state Florida voters are out-of-luck. After losing 56,000 absentee ballots, Broward County and West Palm Beach elections officials dropped off 8,000 replacement ballots to postal workers on Saturday. Many of the ballots arrived unsealed and had to be taped by hand.

Postal employees scrambled to get the ballots in mailboxes by Nov. 1st, leaving state residents until 7 pm today to return them to elections offices.

Gerald McKiernan, spokesperson for the US Postal Service.

[McKiernan1] "Some of these ballots are going to Atlanta, Georgia. This one's going to Little Rock, Arkansas - I'm not sure we can do this. We'll deliver the local ones. We'll do the best we can. We'll get out the local ones and hopefully we'll get them returned."

Volunteers for the Kerry camp says they were unable to locate many voters who never received their ballots.