ANOTHER RECOUNT!

[Wingnut]

<font color=blue>hopefully with fewer pregnant chads.</font color=blue>
Jeff, it's my understanding that they've sterilized all the pregnant chads .... and elimnated the rope so there'd be no more hanging chads.
And they're also going to the famous Supreme Court of Florida (motto: Law? Law? Only if it favors Democrats!) to have the name offically changed from Chad (too preppy) to Janet. They all felt that "hanging Janets" had much more cachet!
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[Anonymous Poster]

Hanging Chads were caused by excess Gravitas!
We all have a duty to prevent hanging Chads, do your part, find somebody named Chad, and become his friend, so he won't become desperate and hang himself.

 

[Ozarker]

I'm not sure how it works and have never seen one of the touch screen machines so I'm guessing.

They spoke of some scanners jamming and tearing the ballots so I guess you vote with the screen, get an opportunity to review your selections then it kicks out a printed sheet that has to be read by a scanner.

That should be an advantage since the computer can tell you how many voted and the scanner can tell you how many were scanned. If those numbers don't match, you have a box of uncounted ballots somewhere or someone feeding bogus ballots through the scanner depending on which number is high.

But.....you have to have people who are smarter than the machine to work it.

 

[cstocks]

Got this article from Newsmax.com:

Janet Reno's Votescam

Janet Reno is not accepting the Florida vote count that gave the Democratic primary election to attorney Bill McBride.

Reno is now arguing that vote fraud and other irregularities helped her opponent win, and she says that just four of 81 disputed precincts turned up 1,818 uncounted votes.

If she can shave just a few thousand votes off McBride's lead, she would be eligible for an immediate state-wide recount.

If she goes ahead, bet on fresh votes for Reno turning up.

Reno is no stranger to vote fraud. A former state's attorney for Miami-Dade, Reno is an old pro on how South Florida elections work.

For example, investigative reporters James Collier and Ken Collier detailed in their 1992 book Votescam how they uncovered pre-printed voter ballots in a warehouse rented by a Miami political candidate.

Following the advice of their editor, the reporters seized the evidence and took the illegal ballots to the State's Attorney, Janet Reno.

Incredibly, Reno had the journalists arrested, rather than investigate how a candidate had pre-printed ballots in his possession!

When we saw this past primary that McBride was leading Reno by 100,000 votes statewide, with 60 percent of precincts reporting, and Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach not reporting even hours after the close of balloting, and after almost every other county had reported, we knew exactly what was happening.

It is a time-honored tradition, perhaps refined by the Daley machine of Chicago, to hold vote counts until the last minute. This way, the machine could figure out just how many votes it needed to come up with close the gap and "win."

We knew this was taking place in these three counties on election night 2000, when the three Florida counties took so long to report - but conveniently closed the gap between Bush and Gore.

It is unbelieveable that both Broward and Dade would claim they still had a significant number of precincts not report 24 hours after the close of ballots.

If Reno gets a recount, bet on the gap between her and McBride to close even more.

 

[MDNY]

Just a thought as to why it seems Florida (to date anyway) is the only state that has these ballot issues. I mean they investigate for a year or more, a committee reviews the problem they throw $10+ million dollars at it and they still cant get it right.

Maybe we need a universal voting system oversee by regulators like they have in other countries where a vote seems to be missed or over counted?

Just seems odd in Florida again.