[dawn53]

Good question. But this morning when I was reading the Tampa Tribune, I came across quite an interesting tidbit of news, buried on page 8 of the main section.

In a little article called Reno Hangs Vote Fiasco on Bush , Machines (which I looked for in their online edition but couldn't find) there were some pretty interesting statements and will make the upcoming election really interesting whether McBride or Reno runs.

I think they know they can't pin it on Jeb, so here's the statement from the article:

Among the allegations: Touch screen machines suffer from the buildup of smudges as more people vote that create inaccuracies; some voters saw the wrong candidate's name light up when they touched the screen; many machines may not have calculated votes properly; and some machines showed an unusually high percentage of ballots without a governor's race

They were speaking about the iVotronic machines and the company's statement later in the article was that "its machines accurately captured 100 percent of the votes which were cast. No votes were lost or not counted."

All this stuff is sooooo reminiscent of the 2000 recount, that I fully expect the dems to want a recount in the Nov. election.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Touch screen machines suffer from the buildup of smudges as more people vote that create inaccuracies

But this only happens in counties where people's hands are smeared with Afro-Sheen? They need to be reminded that in all the other counties that used the machines, there were no problems.

[Dutchgirl]

There was no governor on Republican primary ballots. JEB was unopposed. The "smudges' are interesting though. Duval County (Jax) uses the paper/optical so that a hard physical copy is available. Also, every voter in Florida has to show ID and sign at the polling place, so that the tally of voters and votes should match. Wouldn't a polling place reporting zero votes, have polling personel who would know whether or not any warm bodies showed up on Election Day?