Between 18 and 20% of voters forgot to choose a candidate.

[Jim March]

The latest AP wire story on this has Jeb Bush admitting that it all looks fishy:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/p...61110/BREAKING10/61110007/-1/NEWS0521&start=1

 

[Desertdog]

I wonder if they will look at the absentee ballots for that area to compare nonmachine vote undercount to the machine vote.

It seems to me that, percentage wise, the write in undercount vote should be someplace near the same as the machine's, IF the machines are accurate.

I am all for removing the touch screen machines completly.

 

[ceetee]

Thhis is typical of the way (the only way, since they bought these machines) they do a recount:

Recount underway in Charlotte County

Recounting began at 11:15 a.m. in Charlotte County, where 8.961 people voted in the Congressional race between Vern Buchanan and Christine Jennings.

After a short trip from the supervisor of elections office, 15 people convened at the elections office warehouse, where voting machines were stored on Airport Road in Punta Gorda.

Paul Hale, supervisor of elections facility manager, started by setting up seven machines used for early voting at the Punta Gorda Library.

Hale placed a personal electronic ballot -- a device that stores voting software and votes -- into each machine. He then downloaded voting data onto blank flash cards, which will be transported to the elections office at the end of the day.

It takes six minutes to download data from each machine, and there are 101 machines to work through.

Including Hale, about 14 people are observing the recount, including Supervisor of Elections Mac Horton, two people -- a court reporter an and observer -- hired by Jennings' attorney and three supporters of Buchanan.

Big whoop. Does anyone seriously expect the machines to report different tallies than they did a week ago?

 

[ilbob]

Vote for both candidates in a race! Or, vote straight ticket at the top of the ballot, and then vote for individuals of the other party, down the list.

In my precinct we have optical scan. bets of both worlds IMO. electronic for fast and accurate tally with a reliable paper trial.

We used to have the option of voting straight party and then selecting individual candidates of another party for a specific race. now the striaght party option no longer exists.