This was all happening before the Broward County primary last Tues.:
(Broward official fears chaotic elections office will torpedo primary vote (Election MESS Brewing) Posted on 09/06/2002 8:04 AM Eastern by PJ-Comix Even as election officials sought to reassure voters that next week's primary will go smoothly despite turmoil over new polling places and inaccurate registration cards, the leader of the Broward County Commission charged the area is careening toward another election disaster.
Commission Chairwoman Lori Parrish, who serves on the three-member Canvassing Board that certifies the election results, said Thursday that the process has been too rife with problems to run properly on Tuesday.
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | September 6 2002 | Scott Wyman and Buddy Nevins
Facing the big test, elections office is flailing (Broward Elections Supervisor A Nutcase)
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | September 5, 2002 | Michael Mayo
Posted on 09/05/2002 5:25 PM Eastern by PJ-Comix
It's simple, really. After the mother of all election snafus in 2000, the one thing Broward can't afford is another election snafu.
So we spent $17 million on fancy new touch-screen voting machines, which are supposed to be idiot-proof. Unfortunately, the people in charge still aren't.
There's no doubt Miriam Oliphant, the well-connected first-term supervisor of elections, is an effective, adept politician. Whether she's capable of running a complex operation that serves nearly a million voters is another story.
Election officials edit training video following GOP complaints [Broward County] (AP)
AP ^ | August 11, 2002 | AP
Posted on 08/11/2002 10:20 AM Eastern by summer
Election officials edit training video following GOP complaints
Sunday, August 11, 2002
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE - Broward County election officials nixed a segment from a poll worker training video after some Republicans complained it negatively portrayed a GOP voter.
Election's office employees were used as actors in the video which shows eight scenarios, ranging from how to handle voters with disabilities and language problems to voters who are belligerent.
The segment in question - the scenario on belligerence - showed a white voter, who identified himself as a Republican, verbally abusing a black poll worker.
"I'm voting Republican and do you want to know why? All Democrats are communists," the voter tells the poll worker in the video.
"Sir, you are wrong, I'm a Democrat and I'm certainly not a communist," responds the poll worker.
"You're a Democrat? Then you're a communist just like the rest of them. You people shouldn't even be here," the voter says.
The video later makes the point that poll workers should not argue with voters about political issues, they should just thank them and ignore any other comments.
"Our job was to portray offensive situations and how to handle it," said Bob Cantrell, a spokesman for Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant. "These are real life situations that have happened."
Broward elections official assailed by GOP, still short of poll workers (Political Cleansing)
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | September 5 2002 | Buddy Nevins & Scott Wyman
Posted on 09/05/2002 5:12 PM Eastern by PJ-Comix
State officials were asked Wednesday to rule on whether Broward County Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant's plans for this year's elections violate Florida law. The request for a state ruling came the same day the supervisor conceded she was in "dire need of a minimum of 112 volunteers" to staff next Tuesday's primary. The volunteers would staff 14 locations where votes will be transmitted via modems to the Broward County elections office's central computers.
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