The Election Glitches Begin!!!

[Ira]

I didn't mention this before, because I thought I did something wrong.

But...

When I went to vote this morning (Florida's electronic touch voting machines), I had made all of my selections and was now at the review screens before hitting the big, scary, flashing red "Vote" button.

These are the screens where you confirm that you did what you wanted to do.

And lo and behold, for the Attorney General race, and another minor race, I see that my review screen says "No Selection."

Well, I KNOW I couldn't have missed making these votes, but maybe I DID because these machines are so perfect--much better than PAPER and CHADS, right!?

So it's a scary, annoying process of having to hit the back buttons to see what the heck happened.

Scary because now if you do so, you don't know whether all of your cast votes will be retained, or whether you have to start and read all of this garbage all over again.

Turns out yes, your votes are retained, but I tell my coworker the story, and he sends me THIS tidbit from the Sun-Sentinel web site this morning:

In Fort Lauderdale, Allan J. Richards said that when he reached the end of his electronic ballot the machine said he had not cast a vote in the Attorney General's race. Richards, the chairman of the Journalism Department at Florida International University, said his electronic ballot did not include a page for the race on his first pass through and he had to go back to find it.

"It will confuse people," he said.

Richards said his wife had the same problem. Both voted at Precinct R058, 1700 SW 14th Court at a Broward School Board facility in the Shady Banks area.

"I thought I had missed something and I asked my wife and she said it had happened to her," Richards said.

Brenda Snipes admitted there had been some glitches so far, but said they had been minor.



This is minor???

[Miriam C.]

Guess you need to find out who runs the Broward County Election Commission, surly it is a new group, and see why the machines weren't checked.

[Ira]

Guess you need to find out who runs the Broward County Election Commission, surly it is a new group, and see why the machines weren't checked.

Our last Commissioner of Elections, or whatever you call it, had to resign in disgrace. This is a new one.

At least the guy they're reporting on is a "respectable" member of society.

I doubt they would believe the Publisher of The Florida Funnies.

[Miriam C.]

Hopefully you are referring to the Broward County official and not the state.

Now Ira, perhaps he will think satire is funny.

Come outta the closet, stand up and be heard.

[Miriam C.]

Well it is over in Joplin. You would think since they have the number of registered voters that they would know how many ballots to order.

Joplin and some surrounding communities ran out. They had to photo copy ballots. Now I wonder who will hand count those.

Please put me in charge next time. I can count.

[Laredo]

Aunti, any word from McDonald Co.?
(Seneca & Neosho... where my parents used to have to vote)

[Miriam C.]

I didn't here anything bad from that area but parts of Newton County had problems. I guess they didn't figure we cared to all get out and vote with a constitutional amendment, a minimum wage increase and a bunch of crooks that won anyway. How to know you are looked down on.