Clay Burell on 2008-10-15
Oy.
But what's weird is that DIEBOLD and its history wasn't mentioned at all in this article....
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Good for Politico for raising the broader issue. Scary stuff. Florida and Ohio all over again?
In preparation for the presidential election, 15 Florida counties complied with a new edict to abandon their touch-screen voting machines, and switched to optical scan machines, which leave a physical record of each voter's ballot in case of a recount. But this August in Palm Beach County, a close local primary where 3,400 ballots went uncounted - followed by a series of recounts - led officials to worry and re-test the optical scan voting machines.
"We feel pretty good about the machines," said Jennifer Krell Davis, the communications director for the Florida secretary of state, who said most had had a test-run in this year's presidential primaries.
But just in case, "All of the supervisors have been encouraged to plan as if there is definitely going to be a county-wide recount," she said.
Some observers say that the main problem may simply be delays, and depressed turnout, as voters navigate the new machines.
"To me it's the possibility of the long lines that's the issue," said Susan McManus a political science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Clay Burell on 2008-10-15
Oy.
But what's weird is that DIEBOLD and its history wasn't mentioned at all in this article....
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But what's weird is that DIEBOLD and its history wasn't mentioned at all in this article....
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