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BBV--Republican Advice - Make Sure Your Vote Counts


From the St. Petersburg (FL) Times



http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/29/State/GOP_flier_quest...


GOP flier questions new voting equipment


As Gov. Bush defends touch screen machines, his party urges using
absentee ballots to "Make sure your vote counts."
By STEVE BOUSQUET, Times Staff Writer
Published July 29, 2004


BOSTON - While Gov. Jeb Bush reassures Floridians that touch screen voting
machines are reliable, the Republican Party is sending the opposite
message to some voters.


The GOP urged some Miami voters to use absentee ballots because touch
screens lack a paper trail and cannot "verify your vote."


That's the same argument Democrats have made but which Bush, his elections
director and Republican legislators have repeatedly rejected.


"The liberal Democrats have already begun their attacks and the new
electronic voting machines do not have a paper ballot to verify your vote
in case of a recount," says a glossy mailer, paid for by the Republican
Party of Florida and prominently featuring two pictures of President Bush.
"Make sure your vote counts. Order your absentee ballot today."


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A coalition of liberal and civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit
seeking to force state elections officials to create a system for manual
recounts of touch screen results.

============And from the same paper...................................




http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/29/State/Glitch_prompts_...

Glitch prompts touch screen fears
Still, elections officials say problems in Miami-Dade are about about how voting records are kept, not how votes are cast.

As state officials investigated missing touch screen election records in Miami-Dade County on Wednesday, elections supervisors in the Tampa Bay area expressed confidence in their systems.

Computer crashes last year destroyed data from the 2002 gubernatorial primary, leaving no way to audit the results.

But county officials didn't save the information to a disk or hard drive. Instead, it was stored on a server that crashed and wiped out the records.