Today three featured articles discuss an issue of over 700 votes that just about went uncounted in Palm Beach Co. Florida this past week. But for the fact that the county did an audit and eventually found that election results on from three machines had not been reported in the totals. It is still unknown what happened with these three machines. There is speculation that a card reader may not have worked properly. Another excuse is that the cards may never have been counted at all. The county is investigating. What seems to be incredible is that the when asked by the media early Friday about the discrepancy the Supervisor of Elections, Arthur Anderson, told them that he was not aware of a problem because he was out campaigning for re-election. Typically the Sequoia spokeswoman, Michelle Shafer, ignored the fact that there is an ongoing investigation as she claimed that the public can be confident that the optical scanners worked and votes were properly recorded and tabulated. She ignores the fact that the voters were not properly reported….
- Featured Articles – FL: Palm Beach County – Problems Reported in County Election System
http://www.cbs12.com/news/election_4708341___article.html/run_trial.html - FL: Palm Beach County – Critics rip elections supervisor after miscount in West Palm Beach race
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsnafu0628pnjun28,0,3240328.story - FL: Palm Beach County – Nearly 700 West Palm votes not tallied election night
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/06/27/0627wpbelex.html - NAtional: Machining the Vote: A brief history of lever voting machines
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Machining-the-Vote–A-brie-by-Rady-Ananda-080628-791.html - FL: Florida’s 2008 Election Landscape Looking More Like 2000
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/89760/?ses=aa31c59ca344da065e31de7297131d6a - MS: Hosemann pushes voter ID for state
http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/1214648103207120.xml - OH: Cuyahoga County – Cuyahoga elections board picks costlier scanning system
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/06/cuyahoga_elections_board_picks.html - OH: Cuyahoga County – Voting machine swap means you’ll scan paper ballot
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/06/voting_machine_swap_means_youl.html - OH: Cuyahoga County – Head of voting machine firm Hart InterCivic questions Cuyahoga County choice
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1214642084125190.xml&coll=2 - PA: Bucks County – Advocates hope voting machines ruling has domino effect
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-06282008-1555891.html - UT: Summit County – Board race still tight
System glitch keeps Brothers in the running, Jason Strykowski
http://www.parkrecord.com/todaysheadlines/ci_9721656
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