[PJ-Comix]

Both the closeness of the Florida race and widespread complaints at many state polling places eerily echoed Florida's 2000 election, which left the presidential race in limbo for weeks.

This is what is known as Karmatic Kickback.

Broward County, which was favoring Reno by a better than 2-1 margin, suspended the ballot count just before 5 a.m. with 93 percent of the votes tallied and the race too close to call. Workers planned to resume the count at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

So don't expect any election result updates until after 9 this morning.

Reno's campaign warned it would consider contesting the Democratic primary results as she trailed by 2 percent of votes cast.

YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! This is what I have been hoping for---Janet Reno pulling an Algore and a disputed election that could drag on for weeks. BEAUTIFUL!!!

By Wednesday, thousands of votes still hadn't been counted in three large South Florida counties where Reno hoped to catch up — Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, some of the same counties that figured prominently in the 2000 election dispute.

Ah! I LOVE Karmatic Kickback!!!

Besides the problems in Miami-Dade, Broward County officials said they couldn't find 12 cartridges that store votes from the touchscreen machines.

How many votes per cartridge?

In Maryland, state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen ( news, bio, voting record) defeated Kennedy cousin Mark Shriver...

Another good piece of election news!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fla Elections Returns, live thread! (Update - Reno-McBride a near tie)

[MeekOneGOP]

[RippleFire]

Count every vote - several times.

[putupon]

Hang some chads, count the dimples, do whatever it takes. Just let the Wookie win!

[Overtaxed]

OFHS why can't Floriduh come out of the Stone Age and use optical scanners!

[alley cat]

In the first test of the state's revamped elections system, polling places opened late, and workers had problems starting up new touchscreen voting machines and running other ballots through scanning machines.

WTF??? Didn't anybody in Floriduh think to test the system before the election????

[small voice in the wilderness]

Will someone please wake up warren christopher and let him know he is needed in Fla. again?!?

Gotta love those crazy Floridian dems. Perhaps the voting booth needs to be completely done away with. Maybe a simple "stomp once for reno, twice for mcbride" would suffice.

[Greeklawyer]

Just heard a rumor on the news. Five of the new touch machines were removed from service because they would only allow votes for mcbride. Can anyone else provide more info? Heard this on morning drive, news update.

[Ravenstar]

PJ,All

The Demorats (especially the Clintonoids) want the controversy. I am betting that the poll workers that didn't show up were in the Reno camp and reported late because they knew what the polling data really showed and that was a substantial Reno loss! I want all to note also that the Demorat dominated counties chose the "touch screen" variety of computer which has no paper record intentionally. This is open to huge manipulations. The legit method is the one Brevard County has which is a computer read paper ballot. That way you have a paper trail of the election which can be manually counted if necessary.

Ravenstar

[dasher]

Why every person who works the polls inthose counties hasn't been fired yet is beyond me. They are obviously unable to do such an easy job.

[linn37]

what are democrats thinking when they vote for Reno? P U she is a monster.

[garyb]

So, I read this sentence:

In North Carolina, Dole got 339,748 votes, or 80 percent, with 99 percent of precincts reporting. Bowles, a Charlotte investment banker, had 272,015 votes, or 43 percent. His nearest challenger, state Rep. Dan Blue, had 178,210, or 28 percent.

Then I add 80% plus 43% plus 28% and I get 151%, so, I think gee was this written by AP? Then I look and see, yes, it was.

[jrlc]

Another SoreLoserMan -- SoreRHINOLoserWoman.

[truthandlife]

I think it is interesting to see how Democrats like Janet Reno know how to manipulate the voter system. Remember Democrats are the king of voter fraud. When you know how to do this and it is close race this is always how it happens.

You opponent jumps out to an early lead and then at the end of the night, the Democrats (Janet Reno in this case) gets a few precincts where she knows how to stuff the ballot box. She finds out how many votes she needs at the end of the night and starts the stuffing in her picked out counties (usually predominantly African American precincts where she has a deal with the precinct judge.) See how the gap narrowed at the end? This is the same thing Al Gore did in Florida, Michigan, and Missouri and it works.

Sickening!

[ZULU]

GREAT NEWS!!

A bitter in-party fight is just what Jeb needs to solidify his vistory. I hope the DemonRATS tear each other apart over this!!

[callisto]

Besides the problems in Miami-Dade, Broward County officials said they couldn't find 12 cartridges that store votes from the touchscreen machines. Duval County was missing results from one precinct, while 42 percent of the paper in Orange County, in central Florida, were unable to be read.

Putting the "duh" back in Floriduh.

[Richard Kimball]

Wonder what the overall effect will be on the RAT turnout for the general election? Seems like this would hurt both candidates, as the other sides supporters will be convinced the election was stolen from them. Also, if they're fighting each other, they don't have time to go after Jeb.

[mombonn]

Just dress rehearsal for the massive vote fraud they have planned for November to steal the election from Bush.

They have to know how to pull it off with the new machines.

[5by5]

I'd love to see McBride and Reno fighting over who won for a month or more.

If so, maybe the legislature can leverage the controversy into having the state take control of the voting process away from the counties.

State control might make it harder to game the system in the future.

[Fearless Flyers]

If ever there was a need for Reno storm troopers, here it is.