PA officials say big potential for voting problems!

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Flaws in state balloting loom large
Recount in close vote would be a 'mess' despite reform efforts.

By Tim Darragh
Of The Morning Call

Four years after the Florida presidential vote taught the other 49 states that they needed to modernize and improve safeguards in their voting systems, key reforms in Pennsylvania remain incomplete or undone.

Even where Pennsylvania completed reforms, experts fear that new challenges have been created, leaving the state vulnerable to the type of voting and ballot-counting fiascoes that marked the presidential vote in 2000.

Weaknesses in Pennsylvania's system of voting and counting ballots stand out at a time when polls show President Bush and Sen. John Kerry in a virtual dead heat in Pennsylvania. The potential for a recount brouhaha rises as the vote difference between the candidates narrows.

''A statewide recount would be a mess in Pennsylvania,'' said Larry Frankel, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. ''If we had a situation like Florida, we'd have as big a problem, if not a bigger one.''

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1. I am hoping that Kerry will win big here in PA.

so that we will not have to worry about recounts.

In my voting district we have the lever machines, but I know that they are not the standard throughout the county.