Fla. Fixes Voting Machines, Recount Rules (fixes?)

[maddezmom]

Yeah, Jeb probably has tried to rig the election. :eyes:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The state that turned the 2000 presidential election into turmoil with confusing butterfly ballots and hanging chads is conducting elections differently this time around, embarrassed into overhauling everything from its machinery to its recount rules.

But one thing is still the same going into Election Day — it's far from clear who is going to win the state, and the prospect of another recount remains.


The most obvious change that Florida has made since 2000 is its equipment — the infamous punch-card ballots with their hanging and pregnant chads have been replaced by optical scan systems and touch-screen machines.


Most of Florida will use the optical scan systems, which worked pretty well four years ago. Voters fill in an oval or complete an incomplete line on a paper ballot to indicate their choice, and an optical scanner reads their ballot

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=9&u=/ap/20041031/ap_on_el_pr/florida_recount_rules

And then this article"
Florida Leads States for Voter Complaints -Hotline

MIAMI (Reuters) - Voters in the battleground state of Florida have called in the most complaints over missing absentee ballots, long voting lines and other problems, a group running a hotline said on Sunday.


Common Cause, a nonpartisan democracy advocacy organization, reported that of 53,252 calls received nationwide, 8,658 have been from Florida, the state that delayed the 2000 election result for five weeks,


Florida's total was followed by 6,622 in the Democratic bastion of New York, which has not been a focus of either President Bush (news - web sites) or Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) of Massachusetts in the neck-and-neck presidential race.


Common Cause, which is operating the voter alert line with a consortium of groups, said thousands of calls also were reported in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, 5,409, Michigan, 3,831, and Ohio, 1,639. Complaints also were received from California, South Carolina, New Jersey and Bush's home state of Texas.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=1&u=/nm/20041031/pl_nm/election_complaints_dc

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Jebby is just a sweetheart, ain't he

What jebby needs is a vacation (permament) with his brother in Crawfod, and daddy shoyudl not give any of them any milk or cookies no more. Both should go to their rooms and stay there

[greekspeak]

2. We use optical scan here in Leon County

I like the system. I have used it three times so far, and find it to be far more comforting than even those punch cards we used in Greene County, Missouri.

[Rene]

4. optical scanning programming can be rigged too

read blackboxvoting.com learn how these machines can be hacked, programmed and otherwise record fraudulent voting

[Kelvin Mace]

5. Yes, but at least

you still have a paper ballot to recount.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.com

[aquart]

3. They fixed 'em so this time you can't catch 'em.