Some problems crop up in Florida vote (so far minor) - Raw Story

A handful of Florida voters are reporting technical glitches and other problems in counties using touch-screen voting machines. Early reports indicated the problems were small, and critics of the machines so far have not raised major alarms.

The office of Rep. Robert Wexler, a south-Florida Democrat who is a leading critic of touch-screen machines, received only a few complaints Tuesday morning and passed those concerns along to the state's supervisor or elections, a spokeswoman tells RAW STORY. But so far the congressman and his staff do not see large-scale problems developing.


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After Tuesday's election, Palm Beach County, part of which Wexler represents, will phase out its touch-screen machines in favor of paper optical-scan ballots.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/On_touchscreens_final_day_small_problems_0129.html

One idiot poll worker evidently gave the cover sheet to a stack of ballots to a voter, and the idiot (R) voter didn't know the difference. The thing wouldn't scan. They eventually figured out that it was the cover sheet, and not a ballot, and the voter was issued a real ballot.

A second (R) voter could not have his ballot scanned, and a helpful poll worker was on the phone with someone somewhere (republican headquarters??) trying to resolve the problem. The ruled out it being a cover sheet, ruled out that he was feeding it into the scanner incorrectly (they tried every way), and I believe they had not resolved the problem by the time I left. But everyone was was looking at each other saying :wtf: and wondering whether our votes would count. I felt bad for the voter, even though he was voting (R), as it could have happened to anyone.