WEST PALM BEACH — The votes for three precincts weren't counted on election night after Tuesday's special city commission election, prompting the candidates to ponder the reliability of the new optical-scan system as the county heads toward a busy election season culminating with the presidential vote in November.
Nearly 700 votes from three precincts - 14 percent of the total cast - were added into the final results released by the supervisor of elections office after the standard post-election audit Wednesday and Thursday.
NIIIIICE! I am sure that Randi has already read about this -- since this is her hometown newspaper. I hope she'll talk about it. I'm so proud of my birth-city!
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Full Version: Palm Beach County Screws Up Another Election ~ WOO HOO!
QUOTE (MikeyMike @ Jun 28 2008, 10:17 AM) 
WEST PALM BEACH — The votes for three precincts weren't counted on election night after Tuesday's special city commission election, prompting the candidates to ponder the reliability of the new optical-scan system as the county heads toward a busy election season culminating with the presidential vote in November.
Nearly 700 votes from three precincts - 14 percent of the total cast - were added into the final results released by the supervisor of elections office after the standard post-election audit Wednesday and Thursday.
NIIIIICE! I am sure that Randi has already read about this -- since this is her hometown newspaper. I hope she'll talk about it. I'm so proud of my birth-city!
Read the article here
Nearly 700 votes from three precincts - 14 percent of the total cast - were added into the final results released by the supervisor of elections office after the standard post-election audit Wednesday and Thursday.
NIIIIICE! I am sure that Randi has already read about this -- since this is her hometown newspaper. I hope she'll talk about it. I'm so proud of my birth-city!
Read the article here
From another WPB resident, I saw it on local news this morning. Why does FL have these voting machine problems? What do they use in other states? Couldn't we just copy a reliable voting machine, with paper trail, from another state? These are the machines that will be used in the Nov. election? oh boy here we go again...wonder if I should bother with voting, just kidding, guess I'll take my chances. I'll have that piece of paper right?
QUOTE (jenz @ Jun 28 2008, 10:57 AM)
From another WPB resident, I saw it on local news this morning. Why does FL have these voting machine problems? What do they use in other states? Couldn't we just copy a reliable voting machine, with paper trail, from another state? These are the machines that will be used in the Nov. election? oh boy here we go again...wonder if I should bother with voting, just kidding, guess I'll take my chances. I'll have that piece of paper right?
My understanding is that in 2000, the machines were just fine. From what I have read and seen on TV about that chaos it was the Supervisor of Elections all fault. She created the butterfly ballot and the candidate names were listed in a very confusing way; that's why hundreds if not thousands casted their votes for Pat Buchanan when they really intended to vote for Al Gore.
QUOTE (ATL404 @ Jun 28 2008, 12:06 PM)
My understanding is that in 2000, the machines were just fine. From what I have read and seen on TV about that chaos it was the Supervisor of Elections all fault. She created the butterfly ballot and the candidate names were listed in a very confusing way; that's why hundreds if not thousands casted their votes for Pat Buchanan when they really intended to vote for Al Gore.
Well....yes.....and no.
The 2000 election was attributed to the "Hanging Chad". Teresa LaPore, the Supervisor of Elections (a great lady....who is also my neighbor) made a bungle on that one. The true "robbery" if you will, came during the re-count. There were so many things that went wrong...it was a circus. Then there was Gore v. Florida...I won't get into that. I remember I was in tears as I listened to Randi (who was still only local on WJNO).
The election was further confused in Florida by the fact that dead people and poodles voted. They found absentee ballots by people who were 6 feet under. NOT TO MENTION the fact that the "felon list" excluded both felons and those who had similar names to people who were felons (imagine being JOhn Smith ... you had no chance). My vote was even F-d up. When I got to my precinct they told me that I was a republican (ummmm not) that I had changed my registration (which I hadn't)......for the primary I had to vote under a "contested ballot"...after spending about an hour explaining to a person at the Supervisor of Elections that I had indeed not changed my party affiliation. I even went to their office and had some lady in tears. She called me "mean spirited". I told her....Lady, I'm a gay man..you aint seen nothin' yet!
THEN there is 2004. SSDE (Same Shit, Different Election). We really have no idea what went wrong there. They counted some ballots...missed others...Machines worked..they broke down. there was no paper trail (everything was stored on the computer which, as Randi pointed out, had been proven that it could be hacked).
QUOTE (MikeyMike @ Jun 28 2008, 01:19 PM)
Well....yes.....and no.
The 2000 election was attributed to the "Hanging Chad". Teresa LaPore, the Supervisor of Elections (a great lady....who is also my neighbor) made a bungle on that one. The true "robbery" if you will, came during the re-count. There were so many things that went wrong...it was a circus. Then there was Gore v. Florida...I won't get into that. I remember I was in tears as I listened to Randi (who was still only local on WJNO).
The election was further confused in Florida by the fact that dead people and poodles voted. They found absentee ballots by people who were 6 feet under. NOT TO MENTION the fact that the "felon list" excluded both felons and those who had similar names to people who were felons (imagine being JOhn Smith ... you had no chance). My vote was even F-d up. When I got to my precinct they told me that I was a republican (ummmm not) that I had changed my registration (which I hadn't)......for the primary I had to vote under a "contested ballot"...after spending about an hour explaining to a person at the Supervisor of Elections that I had indeed not changed my party affiliation. I even went to their office and had some lady in tears. She called me "mean spirited". I told her....Lady, I'm a gay man..you aint seen nothin' yet!
THEN there is 2004. SSDE (Same Shit, Different Election). We really have no idea what went wrong there. They counted some ballots...missed others...Machines worked..they broke down. there was no paper trail (everything was stored on the computer which, as Randi pointed out, had been proven that it could be hacked).
The 2000 election was attributed to the "Hanging Chad". Teresa LaPore, the Supervisor of Elections (a great lady....who is also my neighbor) made a bungle on that one. The true "robbery" if you will, came during the re-count. There were so many things that went wrong...it was a circus. Then there was Gore v. Florida...I won't get into that. I remember I was in tears as I listened to Randi (who was still only local on WJNO).
The election was further confused in Florida by the fact that dead people and poodles voted. They found absentee ballots by people who were 6 feet under. NOT TO MENTION the fact that the "felon list" excluded both felons and those who had similar names to people who were felons (imagine being JOhn Smith ... you had no chance). My vote was even F-d up. When I got to my precinct they told me that I was a republican (ummmm not) that I had changed my registration (which I hadn't)......for the primary I had to vote under a "contested ballot"...after spending about an hour explaining to a person at the Supervisor of Elections that I had indeed not changed my party affiliation. I even went to their office and had some lady in tears. She called me "mean spirited". I told her....Lady, I'm a gay man..you aint seen nothin' yet!
THEN there is 2004. SSDE (Same Shit, Different Election). We really have no idea what went wrong there. They counted some ballots...missed others...Machines worked..they broke down. there was no paper trail (everything was stored on the computer which, as Randi pointed out, had been proven that it could be hacked).
I didn't hear much about the 2004 in FL as much as OH. Apparently Bush won FL in the landslide but who knows ...
QUOTE (ATL404 @ Jun 28 2008, 10:26 AM)
I didn't hear much about the 2004 in FL as much as OH. Apparently Bush won FL in the landslide but who knows ...
bush didnt win anything, from what i have read...
mark crispin miller
http://books.google.com/books?id=os5Wdv9TZ...1&ct=result
Just passing through! Carry on...Carry A. Nation? Who dat?
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