[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Check out Ms. Reno's 3 "problem" counties compared to the Reno-McBride votes in other Fla. counties...a few more hours and she may have pulled it off(?):

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/enight.asp Link

Florida Department of State
Division of Elections
September 10, 2002 Primary Election
Democratic Primary

UNOFFICIAL ELECTION NIGHT RETURNS
(may not include absentee or provisional ballots)

Governor and Lieutenant Governor
County	% Report	Daryl L. Jones / Not Yet Designated	Bill McBride / Not Yet Designated	Janet Reno / Not Yet Designated
Alachua	100.0%	2,119	16,453	7,789
Baker	100.0%	591	2,195	776
Bay	100.0%	2,509	8,725	3,510
Bradford	100.0%	608	2,191	1,040
Brevard	100.0%	4,420	17,290	14,546
Broward	100.0%	11,554	42,621	96,551
Calhoun	100.0%	577	2,032	488
Charlotte	100.0%	688	5,352	3,709
Citrus	100.0%	978	6,619	4,361
Clay	100.0%	871	3,072	2,319
Collier	100.0%	1,040	4,577	3,315
Columbia	100.0%	1,274	5,009	1,990
Desoto	100.0%	409	1,714	948
Dixie	100.0%	271	1,869	486
Duval	100.0%	16,942	28,110	29,177
Escambia	100.0%	3,611	13,089	6,541
Flagler	100.0%	856	3,317	3,033
Franklin	100.0%	221	1,633	567
Gadsden	100.0%	1,617	4,852	3,425
Gilchrist	100.0%	329	1,742	517
Glades	100.0%	225	794	555
Gulf	100.0%	584	2,236	670
Hamilton	100.0%	319	1,424	592
Hardee	100.0%	564	1,798	576
Hendry	100.0%	357	1,235	869
Hernando	100.0%	1,132	6,337	5,075
Highlands	100.0%	1,067	2,786	1,941
Hillsborough	100.0%	11,835	45,964	24,791
Holmes	100.0%	505	2,729	555
Indian River	100.0%	995	2,790	3,415
Jackson	100.0%	1,786	4,975	1,471
Jefferson	100.0%	573	2,399	871
Lafayette	100.0%	211	1,286	317
Lake	100.0%	1,314	9,023	4,333
Lee	100.0%	2,055	11,538	9,507
Leon	100.0%	4,662	24,729	10,986
Levy	100.0%	550	3,708	1,173
Liberty	100.0%	266	1,460	374
Madison	100.0%	558	2,038	916
Manatee	100.0%	1,925	10,281	7,490
Marion	100.0%	2,839	10,817	11,067
Martin	100.0%	723	3,045	4,537
Miami-Dade	100.0%	13,676	31,340	108,541
Monroe	100.0%	672	1,989	4,004
Nassau	100.0%	866	2,686	1,771
Okaloosa	100.0%	1,062	4,910	2,047
Okeechobee	100.0%	617	2,399	1,448
Orange	100.0%	8,342	33,640	22,889
Osceola	100.0%	1,165	4,967	3,385
Palm Beach	100.0%	7,931	35,624	64,445
Pasco	100.0%	2,788	15,615	11,069
Pinellas	100.0%	6,743	40,214	30,349
Polk	100.0%	7,474	20,575	11,863
Putnam	100.0%	1,488	5,197	3,436
Santa Rosa	100.0%	799	4,945	1,510
Sarasota	100.0%	1,937	11,269	9,760
Seminole	100.0%	2,123	10,537	5,277
St. Johns	100.0%	1,355	5,039	3,703
St. Lucie	100.0%	2,350	6,575	8,409
Sumter	100.0%	661	3,123	1,403
Suwannee	100.0%	698	2,931	1,336
Taylor	100.0%	464	2,085	757
Union	100.0%	215	1,486	453
Volusia	100.0%	4,532	19,352	14,858
Wakulla	100.0%	468	3,121	1,152
Walton	100.0%	717	3,167	1,197
Washington	100.0%	685	2,368	581
Total		156,358	601,008	592,812
Percent		11.6%	44.5%	43.9%

[floriduh voter]

Reno lost MORNING HOURS in Broward where they opened late as well as EVENING extended hours when poll workers left two hours early.

Somewhere, they packed up and abandoned an 80 something year old poll worker with all the stuff. He took the ballots home and I think grocery shopping. At least he had custody of them when the other poll workers booked. Had he left the ballots at the polling place, minions would have possibly confiscated and thrown away those ballots. Rush Limbaugh talked about this on Thursday I think. JANET RENO GOT SQUEEZED OUT IN THE AM AND IN THE PM.

[JulieRNR21]

This breaking AP story quotes official of company who supplied the Voting Machines as saying that poll workers didn't insert the cartridges in the machines which made it appear that no votes were cast.

There should be an investigation to determine of this was done deliberately to hurt Reno or was the result of incompetence due to lack of training or proper supervision.

The Associated Press

MIAMI (Sept. 15) - Election workers in Janet Reno's stronghold of Broward County have found uncounted votes from last week's primary, though officials didn't say how many.

The votes were found Saturday in a precinct that first reported no votes, said Willie Weslie, project manager with Election Systems & Software Inc., which made the touchscreen voting machines used in the county.

That precinct, with 832 registered voters, was among 247 that Reno has asked officials to review in her battle with Bill McBride for the Democratic nomination.

``I don't know what happened in every case. I just know poll workers had procedures and didn't follow them,'' said Weslie.

Weslie said poll workers in the precinct should have inserted a cartridge in the machines, which would have collected the votes when polls closed. But they did not, he said, so the empty cartridge made it appear that no votes were cast.

Workers examined touchscreen voting machines until shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday, and were expected to continue Sunday. The deadline for counties to report official vote tallies to the state is 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Election Supervisor Miriam Oliphant's office would not discuss the uncounted votes.

``Once the process is complete, the supervisor of elections will have a statement with respect to that and every other issue her office feels is necessary to assure the voters of Broward County that every vote will be counted,'' said spokesman Rick Riley.

Reno trailed McBride by 8,196 votes in unofficial counts from the state. The 247 precincts she asked to be reviewed have 15,841 voters.

Reno has also asked Miami-Dade County officials to check for lost votes. Officials there found more than 1,800 uncounted votes from four precincts Thursday, and were reviewing touchscreen voting machines to determine if more were unreported.

Miami and Broward counties used the same touchscreen machines made by Election Systems & Software.