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philb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 08:42 PM
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9. Broward voters reported ES&S touch screen switching and glitches- similar to 2004
851 Polling Place Problem Broward Florida Coral Springs Library Yes Coral Springs Library on University Drive Machine did not want to register Democratic selection until he" pounded it. " It had not registered any vote until he tried several times. Eventually he was able to vote and the screen confirming his vote was accurate. He was concerned about how difficult it was to get his vote registered. Incident during early voting. This wa

3854 Polling Place Problem Other Problem Broward Florida Markham Park Yes Voter completed her voting all the way through. After finishing and hitting the "View" button, all of the voters' prior selections had changed to other candidates who the voter had NOT SELECTED. She complained to two poll workers neither of whom were helpful or very sympathetic. They finally allowed her to vote again on another machine after void the defective ballot. The Machine Number for the defective machine is 268561. The voter complained that after she was permitted to vote on another machine, the poll workers allowed others to use the defective machine even though they were aware of the problems that she reported.

5348 Polling Place Problem Broward Florida No Voting machine is broken -- was skipping choices. Poll workers shut it down. Voter later voted successfully.

904 Other Problem Broward Florida Active Senior Living Residence Yes Ballot skipping pages.

3884 Other Problem Broward Florida No Voter alleges that some of her votes were missing from her summary screen. Voter was not comfortable providing her personal identifying info. Voter did not obtain serial number of machine.

3854 Polling Place Problem Other Problem Broward Florida Markham Park Yes Voter completed her voting all the way through. After finishing and hitting the "View" button, all of the voters' prior selections had changed to other candidates who the voter had NOT SELECTED. She complained to two poll workers neither of whom were helpful or very sympathetic. They finally allowed her to vote again on another machine after void the defective ballot. The Machine Number for the defective machine is 268561. The voter complained that after she was permitted to vote on another machine, the poll workers allowed others to use the defective machine even though they were aware of the problems that she reported.


A much bigger EP hotline effort in 2004 had a lot more of such cases of switching from Dem to Repub, switching from Dem to blank, and other types of glitches- in Presidential, U.S. Senate, and races down to the amendment level
www.flcv.com/EIRSfla.html


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