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12-09-2007, 06:11 PM
TALLAHASSEE - Lift the carpet that Florida is rolling out for this presidential election, and you'll find glitches, errors and bugs that have some of those charged with protecting your right to vote worried.
For a computer system put together in haste and imposed on 67 disparate county systems, problems are not surprising.
Errors have been and are being addressed, but the ongoing fixes and problems come as elections officials prepare for a presidential election year and are weeks away from the deadline for voters to sign up to vote or pick a party for the Jan. 29 primary.
Among the glitches:
State and local computer systems that change the political party of voters or erase the party choice of voters;
Would-be voters rejected because federal computers couldn't locate them, even though they carried physical proof of their identity;
Eligible voters turned away by county election officials because the state was not sharing updated files, and;
The mysterious relocation of thousands of Florida voters to a small town in Georgia.
maybe they should just use absentee ballots
For a computer system put together in haste and imposed on 67 disparate county systems, problems are not surprising.
Errors have been and are being addressed, but the ongoing fixes and problems come as elections officials prepare for a presidential election year and are weeks away from the deadline for voters to sign up to vote or pick a party for the Jan. 29 primary.
Among the glitches:
State and local computer systems that change the political party of voters or erase the party choice of voters;
Would-be voters rejected because federal computers couldn't locate them, even though they carried physical proof of their identity;
Eligible voters turned away by county election officials because the state was not sharing updated files, and;
The mysterious relocation of thousands of Florida voters to a small town in Georgia.
maybe they should just use absentee ballots