Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Florida Loses Voting Records

Well, good job, Florida.

Florida Officials: Some voting records wiped out

The crashes occurred in May and November of 2003, erasing information from the September 2002 gubernatorial primaries and other elections, elections officials said Tuesday.


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Last month, state officials said the touchscreen systems used by 11 counties had a bug that would make a manual recount impossible. Earlier this month, a newspaper study indicated touchscreen machines did not perform as well as those that scanned paper ballots.


BTW, officials didn't fess up, they were found out.

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