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Please, please, no
I can't take it again.
Within hours of the opening of advance polls in the American presidential election, problems were being reported in the state of Florida...Within an hour, a Democratic state legislator reported getting an incomplete absentee ballot in Palm Beach County.....
And in Orange County, voting ground to a halt after the touch-screen voting system crashed for about ten minutes.
A senior deputy elections supervisor could not explain the brief outage, but speculated a faulty Internet connection may have been to blame.
Even before voting began, there were reports election offices across the state had been tossing out thousands of incomplete voter registration forms. Sparking fears this year's registration forms could become the equivalent of the notorious "hanging chads" of four years ago...
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on October 18, 2004 at 03:38 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink
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Alex over at Marginal
Revolution on Florida
early-voting glitches: "Please, please, no. I can't take it again."
The idea of using privately developed software in election is just
plain dumb. You have no idea what's in there -- whether it's ba [Read More]
Tracked on Oct 19, 2004 3:58:16 PM
