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ORLANDO -- Sandbagged by Janet Reno, the once high-flying campaign of Bill McBride is hitting the road as it tries to regain momentum. McBride, who took two days to claim victory amid reports of voting irregularities in the Democratic primary, made his first general election campaign appearance Saturday morning at a union luncheon. By this time, McBride had planned to jet around the state on a Democrat victory/unity tour with Reno, third-place finisher Daryl Jones and U.S. Sens. Bob Graham and Bill Nelson. But Reno has challenged McBride's victory and, as a result, party unity is withering. Reno says all...

Filed at 7:19 p.m. ET MIAMI (AP) -- Eleven other Florida counties had the same kind of touch-screen voting machines used in Miami-Dade County, where voting irregularities have tied up another major election. They were operated by similar crews of mainly elderly volunteers who had worked low-tech elections for years. So why did Tuesday's primary go so well in those places and so miserably here? For starters, those other counties trained their poll workers up to three times longer than Miami-Dade. Some made sure volunteers could read the English instructions. Most had their machines longer then Miami-Dade did, and they...