The Florida Democratic Party sent out e-mails (go, register to the site) because they were doing an audit of the 2004 vote. My vote was not counted. I vote on a paper ballot, that is run through a scanner (which can be hacked) and the tally is transmitted electronically to the election supervisor's office. I can assure you, there was no over vote, no under vote, and no stray marks on my ballot

So read up on this stuff.... http://www.blackboxvoting.org

I don't think the primaries are clean elections, either. I think those who control the elections also control who wins the primaries and the elections. I think they control the count of both political parties.

It's depressing.

I've worked for the Dade-County Department of Elections since February of this year, and its something we're dealing with. The touch screen machines are going away and being replaced with paper ballots and optical scanners, and the department is spending more on training.

I cringe a little inside whenever someone comes in and cast a vote, and mutters a, "let's hope it gets counted this time."

A quote widely credited to Stalin: It's Not the People Who Vote that Count; It's the People Who Count the Votes.

Palm Beach County is back on the radar screen. Thousands of ballots just disappeared between the Tuesday election and Sunday's recount of a judge race. POOF - gone! Arthur Anderson, our elections supervisor, is either completely incompetent or he was paid handsomely to make ballots disappear. Maybe a little of both. I dunno. I am dreading November.

When I voted in the primaries here it looks like we have completely switched over to optical scan machines.

The good news about optical scans is there is a paper record - there are physical sheets they can go back and recount.

If there's a flaw, it's that people sometimes are a little careless filling them in or erasing if they make a mistake (and they don't know they can ask for another ballot), so they are a bit more overvote/undervote prone than the touchscreens. But then, not as bad as the punch card ballots.

The problem with the paper ballot is that they disappear. The other problem is that since this dunce didn't calibrate the machines properly, the tabulating machine read the ballots differently.

This is why I am working very hard to get Susan Bucher elected to replace this clown. I can't take this anymore. Who knew that adding one could be so hard? In this county, the very core of our democracy is being flushed down the toilet every election. It's maddening.

This record of events demonstrates what we have been up against from various angles regarding voting and voting records. Ballots are stored in the state library and I feel quite confident that those ballots were a part of this devious scheme Jeb cooked up...hooray for the librarians. Join that clan
http://librarian.lishost.org/?p=339
see also;

http://librarian.lishost.org/?p=193
http://librarian.lishost.org/?cat=26

In all my reading about ballots, elections, and votes, I have seen no gap in the effort by bad actors to have control of election results. From education, registration, voter's selection, ballot tabulation, electronic transmission, media complicity, to archive of ballots, the intent is clear. That's why they are constantly harping about our "close elections" Piece by piece the margins are whittled down in a coordinated scheme to overthrow the will of the people.
Yet, I find myself almost chuckle when I consider the fact that republican voters haven't a clue that they are not selecting their candidates, either. Errant little dismissive, I know. But it's true. It's the same kind of guilty pleasure I get when my mean neighbor steps in his own cat's crap.