New voting glitches raise concerns in Florida

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:13 AM EDT

Article Source: msnbc.com

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Welcome back to Florida, where a botched local election has officials asking whether the court battles of 2000 could be repeated in November.

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Squeezyr

Give this slimy state to Cuba. Everyone in America hates Florida for their gross ignorance.

Talk about a backward state and they gave us George Bush, may they all rot in hell!!!!

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#1 - Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:38 AM EDT

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Ken Pac NW

OK, here we are less than two months away from a VERY close election, with polls in Florida virtually even. In a local race for judge, they are headed into the THIRD recount???!! WTF! Am I going to live through another 2000 election nightmare and have the Supreme Court appoint yet another president?

This is unacceptable! Very strict requirements are placed on voters but the counting process is in shambles.

To ensure that each voter is properly qualified to vote, the state imposed stringent ID requirements. The rules say a voter's driver's license or approved alternative identification must match up exactly with the voter database.

Two problems: Some driver's licenses have typos. And the voter rolls have never been proofread for errors.
"Requiring to be matched up perfectly to databases which have never been tested for accuracy is simply a prescription to have people disenfranchised," said Ion Sancho, elections supervisor in Leon County.

Or take the new ballots, which are read by optical scanners. The rules are simple but precise: Voters must blacken in the space between the head of an arrow and a rectangular base beside their preferred candidate's name, creating a whole arrow by connecting them.

But some voters didn't understand the directions. So far, election officials say, many ballots have been rendered unreadable by voters who wrote in X's, checks, boxes, stars or dots.

So the state is ready to disenfranchise anyone who's ID doesn't match up to an UNVERIFIED data base. But as far as the accuracy of the vote, it looks like they still have the same issue they had 8 years ago.

What's really going on here??????

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#2 - Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:39 AM EDT

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