Flawed Florida Touch Screens Draw Scrutiny

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-florida6aug06,1,4223380.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

Flawed Florida Touch Screens Draw Scrutiny
A belated second look at irregularities in the 2002 state election reinforces fears that the November presidential vote could be a repeat of 2000's.

By John-Thor Dahlburg, Times Staff Writer


MIAMI — Floridians worried about the reliability of touch-screen voting got more fodder for their fears Thursday: belated public scrutiny of a report on tens of thousands of ballots tossed out for irregularities in the state's most recent general election.

The Florida Division of Elections' report found that the rate of so-called undervotes, or blank or incomplete ballots, in the 2002 gubernatorial election was nearly three times higher in counties using touch-screen machines as in those with optical scan systems.

In the election, which incumbent Republican Gov. Jeb Bush won by a wide majority, more than 44,000 votes were ruled invalid because of undervotes, overvotes (when a voter chooses more than one candidate) or flawed absentee ballots, the report said.<snip>

However, the day before the article on the report was published, Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas, a Democrat, asked the county manager whether their jurisdiction should shift from touch-screen machines to paper ballots and optical scanners for the Nov. 2 election. <snip>

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1. Here we go again....

These sons of bitches...

I DEMAND A PAPER TRAIL!!