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Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore will try to prevent voter confusion by sending a detailed instruction brochure to absentee voters before the fall elections.

Before Nov 2000, this county reportedly had a history of voting problems.

Now, after $16 million has been spent on new equipment and other improvements -- and, yet, they still can't figure out how to vote -- I think something else needs to be done.

Maybe Gov. Bush or Lt. Gov. Brogran could go on tv -- perhaps The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, The View and Oprah -- and TEACH these Palm Beach County voters: how to cast a vote. Bring a new touch voting screen, and demonstrate it on tv. Everyone will tune in, and who knows, someone may learn something.

[umgud]

There is a simple solution. If the voter doesn't cast his/her vote properly, it should be thrown out. Nobody should have to guess the intent of the voter.

[johniegrad]

Maybe if they handed out voting instructions at the casinos or perhaps with "early bird" dinners?

[clikker]

This can't be serious. It must be an April Fool's Day joke. I absolutely refuse to believe that, after all that turmoil and chaos that these people caused us less than two years ago, that there are still people there that cannot properly punch a hole through a piece of paperboard.

Wait, no. I just reread the article. They're not punchcard ballots, are they? They're touch-screen ballots. That's even more pathetic.

No, I just refuse to believe it. It just boggles the mind.

[aomagrat]

But the process for fixing the 55 ballots took 90 minutes

With the new ballots, it will take forever to "fix" an election.

[Henchster]

"When scanners kicked out the unreadable ballots, elections workers were forced to look at each one individually on election night. They then had to determine voter intent and fill out a duplicate ballot readable by the machines."

Now THAT'S SCARY! Their definition of duplicate means a straight Dem ticket.

[NautiNurse]

perhaps The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, The View and Oprah -- and TEACH these Palm Beach County voters: how to cast a vote.

Why stop there? Dan Blather and Peter Lemmings could review the technique for the Democraps on the evening news.

[steve-b]

What the hell? Is there some kind of Stupid Serum in the water down there??

As far as I'm concerned, if you don't take the election seriously enough to follow a few simple instructions, then your vote should not count.

[yankeedame]

Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore will try to prevent voter confusion by sending a detailed instruction brochure to absentee voters before the fall elections.

Yeah, boy,that'll do it!

Give me a break! People who apparently can't figure out how to use a touch screen are going to sit down and read a "detailed instruction brochure"? Yeah. Right. And I'll take vanilla.

[.45MAN]

Voting schools ... Palm Beach needs voting schools, for just a small fee of $100.00 ( the Palm Beachers Have it) we will teach you how to vote. Or better still make Palm Beach county a non voting area, they have never voted correctly anyway.....

[jungleboy]

Looks like the same crooks are running the balloting. No Justice again folks.

[weegee]

It sounds to me like it was mail-in ballots that were improperly marked for votes (as the notice will be going to absentee voters and the scanner had a hard time reading the ballots).

Then again, some Floridians had no qualms about throwing out military absentee ballots that were "improperly" filled out (even though there were no issues with their vote choices, just the voter identity).

Is the 3% voter error within the margin of error for Florida elections? Typically this is the case for states in the US.