Palm beach county had a higher number of spoiled ballots than many other counties in florida. what could account for this higher number of spoiled ballots? explain.

Local GOP officials blamed overvoting on voter confusion. The result is thousands of ballots that can’t be read by machine. Those ballots go to the three-person county canvassing board for humans to read and sometimes humans make mistakes, thats a another answer.

Explanation:

simplify brackets

8 - 2a - 7 = a + 40

simplify 8 - 2a - 7 to -2a + 1

-2a + 1 = a + 40

add 2a to both sides

1 = a + 40 + 2a

simplify a + 40 + 2a to 3a + 40

1 = 3a + 40

subtract 40 from both sides

1 - 40 = 3a

simplify 1 - 40 o -39

-39 = 3a

divide both sides by 3

-39/3 = a

simplify 39/3 to 13

-13 = a

switch sides

a = -13