Florida Saga Continues- Broward County "Finds" 104,000 Votes, Oliphant, "Only A Small Problem"

Miami Herald ^ | 11/6/02

[11th Earl of Mar]

Broward reports wrong vote totals

By EVAN S. BENN

ebenn@herald.com

More than 100,000 votes went missing on Tuesday between the time they were counted by electronic machines and the time they were reported on cable-access television and on the Supervisor of Elections web site.

A glitch in the vote reporting system left a 104,000-vote difference between Tuesday night's totals and those reported late Wednesday.

Election officials said the error has no effect on the outcome of any races, though voter turnout jumped from 35 percent to 45 percent after it was corrected.

And it raises questions about how the supervisor's office could have missed that many votes.

''The initial reports didn't include everything we tabulated,'' Deputy Supervisor Joe Cotter said. ``It was a minor software thing. Once we realized it, we took the proper steps to fix it.''

Before the county canvassing board members went home early Wednesday, they saw a discrepancy in the vote reports, which showed 402,951 people voted in the governor's race, but only 337,976 total ballots were cast.

''That was the red flag,'' said Charles Lindsey, an election monitor from the state Division of Elections.

Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant said the problem was ''small,'' but admitted she didn't know what prompted it. ''That's what the technical folks, the [Election Systems & Software] people, are trying to figure out,'' she said.

The canvassing board plans to meet at 9:30 tonight to certify all the votes, except for about 3,000 provisional ballots. Those will be certified Thursday morning, before the canvassing board releases official tallies to the state.

[henbane]

Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant said the problem was ''small,'' but admitted she didn't know what prompted it.

This woman must be wired in real solid with the local pols.

Miriam came under fire for booting out a wheelchair-bound poll worker of 15 years who was living on a Social Security check to make room for her Mom--even though hiring relatives is strictly against the law.

And then there was this:

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Polling changes anger voters

By Buddy Nevins
Political Writer
Posted August 31 2002

Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant is being flooded with complaints after more than 300,000 voters found out this week that they have new polling places.

Those voters are nearly one-third of the 1 million who are registered in Broward County, causing politicians to predict massive confusion at the polls for the Sept. 10 primary. Some feared the uncertainty or inconvenience of the new locations would discourage people from voting.

Already under fire for mishandling the hiring of poll workers, Oliphant and her office are taking the brunt of the blame from voters, community leaders and elected officials.

“They didn’t think this thing through. It’s driving some of us crazy,” said Robert Weinreb, who lives in Wynmoor condominiums in Coconut Creek and will now have to vote about a mile away.

Sun-Sentinel.com Article

[backhoe]

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[zarf]

They're Latinos running the show in Miami!! Corruption is part of their southern hemisphere ethic.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Trust me. Oliphant is that stupid and criminal.

[ampat]

Software thing? Unlikely, in the best case it was operator error.

[VRWC_minion]

If the race were close these missing ballots would have been insurance policy for law suits and recounts. Its obvious what happened.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Since you are totally clueless about our state, and elected Harry "I kiss commie ass" Reid to the Senate last time, I would watch what I say.

The voting was flawless. The problem, as usual is with this corrupt demorat elections supervisor who is already under a pending criminal investigation for "borrowing" voting machines to study them before the election. We had no problems down here other than this fiasco, which is in one of the few demorat counties in the state.

We re-elected Jeb, put a totally Republican legislature into power, and added 2 pubbies to the Congressional roles. What did your state do to help the Republicans on a national basis?

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Retained. The RNC did a lousy job about educating it's base on this issue.

[ThomasMore]

These people have to be crooks. Nobody can be this stupid.

Simple science. Too much sun! Dims need shade! ;^)

[LasVegasMac]

Clueless in Florida, Yea, that Reid thing bugs me, too. Unfortunately, Clark County is the DemoRat magnet in this state - we are working on that but hard to fight the influx from Kalifornia. Fortunately, most other state races went to the Pubbies.

Touchy about that voting thing aren't we?

It's ok, practice - practice.

LVM

[Nuke'm Glowing]

LOL, we, the people who put Katherine Harris, are touchy! We prefer the blame goes where it belongs instead of painting the state with a broad brush. It's the southeastern counties, where the rats are in power. We've done our job, now it's your turn to get rid of that loser Reid.

[alethia]

That's true -- I remember him saying something to the effect of "clearly marked for Bush" or "no indentation (pregnant chad)". He did a terrific job -- thanks Judge!!!

[Clemenza]

Yes, they ARE crooks down in the Miami area

Take that back. Broward (home to Fort Liquordale) does NOT include Miami, where I resided for three years. For all of its problems, Miami-Dade is NOT as bad as Broward, nor as liberal as Palm Beach. Nevertheless, that is like comparing the fifth circle of hell to the seventh.

[Clemenza]

Bump for Judge Rosenberg!

[Clemenza]

They're Latinos running the show in Miami!! \

As opposed to those sensible Condo Communist transplants from New York who run Broward and Palm Beach Counties?

Remember that Miami-Dade now sends THREE Latino REPUBLICAN Congressmen to Miami (Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Illeana Ros-Lehtinen).