I guess we shouldn't be too surprised, but early voting has been under way in FL for a few hours now and already we are seeing
serious problems arise. Some details below the fold.
State Rep. Shelley Vana was not so happy. She said the paper absentee ballot she was given at a Palm Beach County site was missing one of its two pages, including the proposed amendments to the state constitution. She said election workers were indifferent when she pointed out the oversight.
"There was absolutely no concern on the part of the folks at the Supervisor of Elections Office that this page was missing. This is not a good start. If there are incomplete ballots out there, I can't imagine I would be the only one getting it," she said.
County elections supervisor Theresa LePore did not immediately return a call for comment.
Lovely - missing parts of the absentee ballot and indifference from election workers. And Theresa LePore is behind this. I'm feeling confident already - are you?
More, from the other OC:
And in Orange County, the touch-screen system briefly crashed, paralyzing voting in Orlando and its immediate suburbs.
Great! One could take the optimistic approach and say that this means FL will work out its kinks early and before November 2. And that may be true - but what does this portend for other important, close states that do not have early voting? If an e-voting system crashes two weeks ahead of the big day, there's time to fix it. If it crashes at 10 AM on November 2, you have a problem.
I don't care about the polls anymore, I don't care about the media lies, I don't care about BC04 bullshit. I do care a lot about the quality of this election, about it running smoothly and people being able to vote as they ought to be able. So far, I'm not liking what I'm seeing.