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To: GregD
Broward (just in the past week or so) is a total meltdown. They had a single race in which 7 Republicans were seeking a state legislative seat. 134 votes were not counted by the touchscreen machines.

I question this. I do not know how it is possible to know that 134 votes were not counted, when the only verification of the vote is the machine's tally of the vote. Could it be that 134 people showed up to vote, but just did not enter a vote on that particular race? Not everyone votes on every question...

I don't mean to give the wrong impression. The only way I can accept machine voting is if I vote by touch-screen, the machine shows me a picture of a voted ballot at the end and gives me the option of revising or accepting it, then prints out the ballot, which goes into the locked box for counting. In my scenario, the only use for the machine is to verify the number of ballots voted, and maybe record a vote tally for verification purposes.

115 posted on 01/13/2004 1:01:10 AM PST by exDemMom (I just joined the Army. Wow.)
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To: exDemMom
Easy... There was only one race. No other reason to come to the polls other than to vote on that one. It was a special election. And this happened in a "well-bred" precinct where voters were educated, and supposedly knew WTF they were doing.

116 posted on 01/13/2004 1:10:54 AM PST by GregD
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