[Spirited]

Having precincts report immediately the number of voters that day is a sterling idea. That should be advanced to the highest level.

The "hanky panky" we are seeing continually is downright unnerving. This might help in some degree to limit what can be "found" later.

One thing we knew immediately upon closing is the number of voters we had seen that day. It is an easy thing to report and would also help if the machines are "misread".

There should be a penalty for any delay and a time limit of some kind on this with less than one-half hour to get the report in.

[Goldwater Girl]

Good in theory- but Florida may be too big for it to work.
We have 8million voters-3 million of whom live in Dade,Broward & Palm Beach. Broward has 780 precincts, Dade 754- presents an impossible task for phone lines to handle.

E-mail from the precinct might work (they would provide a time and date stamp when sent), but security concerns about hacking into open modem lines stopped Florida from hooking the precincts up by modem.

There is a physical voter roll, signed by each voter who turns up, which is compared to the votes cast before final certification, but that is not done immediately on election night. And it would require poll workers to go through a book of 2000+ names, manually counting signatures for reporting election night. I'm not sure that's a good plan- we've seen how well they count down there.