[Goldwater Girl]

Cyberant- this time it wasn't the voters who didn't know how to use the equipment- it was the poll workers who didn't know how to get the votes cast transferred onto the backup tape to be counted at election headquarters. Lots of precincts showed no voters- or a single voter, when in reality hundreds of people showed up and cast a vote- and raised hell when they saw their vote didn't count.
That's what Reno is trying to correct- Dade & Broward are now downloading the votes, so they can be counted. She is entirely justified, INHO.

[CyberAnt]

Thanks for clarifying that!

However, there were several reports of people who could not use the equipment.

The point I was trying to make was that as a citizen, it is our responsibility to know how to use the equipment and to carefully choose who we are voting for.

And ... that responsibility would also include poll workers' knowledge of how the equipment works. Before I went precinct walking, I went to a training class to learn how to do it correctly.