Election law officials are scratching their heads trying to figure out the legal result of a Florida referendum in which absolutely no one voted.
The ballot question was to decide whether the town of Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale, could annex a nearby area that includes a variety of rental and industrial properties. A total of 68 people live in the area, but not one showed up to vote.
Workers manned a polling site at an assisted-living facility for 12 hours, at a cost of about $2,500, but nobody appeared, leaving legal authorities confused as to how to interpret the results.
“I’m just shocked,” said Rep. Jack Seiler, who pushed a bill through the state legislature authorizing the referendum.
But potential voter Juan Vidal, 23, presumably spoke for all his fellow citizens when he told reporters that the annexation issue “doesn’t make any difference to me either way.”
