Friday, November 17, 2006

Did Florida Foul Another Ballot?

From Wired News

Here we go again; it seems Florida will never get it right. Once again they muck up the vote….

The machines, critics say, may have lost more than 18,000 votes cast in Sarasota County last week for a congressional seat that Republican candidate Vern Buchanan seized by a margin of fewer than 400 votes.

That's because 18,382 ballots recorded no vote for either Buchanan or his Democratic opponent, Christine Jennings, in the 13th Congressional District -- a House seat that previously belonged to Katherine Harris, the former Florida secretary of state who played a pivotal role in the 2000 presidential recount.

Critics are calling this new recount a sham, since the touch-screen machines have no paper trail and questions about the missing votes remain unanswered. They say a planned legal challenge contesting the results, likely to be filed next week, could help prove once and for all that electronic voting systems are unreliable.

You would think that they have learned their lesson, but it seems that they haven’t or maybe they don’t want to have a fair and honest election. Maybe they fear that their candidate wouldn’t win in a fair election. The election officials claim the missing votes were the result of voter apathy over the choice of candidates, dismissing voters complaints on election day of miss counted votes as trivial.

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