More vote tampering in Florida 13

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Republicans hung onto the seat vacated by Katherine Harris, but the results are highly suspect. Something really needs to be done about Florida. The place seems to be run like a banana republic.

"Democrat Christine Jennings lost to Republican Vern Buchanan by 368 votes, making it the second closest congressional race in the country. More than 18,000 voters who showed up at the polls voted in other races but not the Buchanan-Jennings race."

The Sarasota Herald Tribune has details

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/NEWS/611090343

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1. Has she conceded? CNN doesn't have it called yet.

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3. I think election officials

are still puzzling over what to do. It's too large a turd to simply sweep under the rug. Plus it smells.

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2. Did Theresa LaPore design that ballot?

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6. Theresa Dent has apparently pulled a "LaPore"

She's not answering her phone and is unavailable for comment.

Sorry, that should be Kathy Dent.

[Onlooker]

4. Well, this is certainly something that should be investigated...

... If not by the corrupt state of Florida, then by the new House of Reps. In the best case, this is an example of a major problem technical that must be addressed. What makes it suspicious is that the only states that seem to be having a few suspicious results are Florida and Ohio, states already suspected of election fraud.

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5. There's this, from further down in the article

"At a press conference Wednesday, Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent said she did not know specifically what caused the undervote.

"I do not know what to attribute it completely to. It's not a mechanical issue; it would be voters overlooking the race. We did not have any equipment failure," Dent said. "I'm not a mind reader. I can only give you conjecture."

But prior to the election, Dent had sent notices to her poll workers to warn voters that the District 13 race was easy to miss as they scrolled through their touch-screens to vote.

Dent declined repeated requests for Wednesday for interviews.

A review of precinct-by-precinct voting results in Sarasota County shows that voting problems were widespread and cut across party lines. Virtually every precinct had relatively high undervotes. Among the worst was La Casa Mobile Home Park, a retirement park for seniors where 30 percent of people who showed up at the polls did not have a vote recorded in the Buchanan-Jennings race."

Apparently the design of the screen was such that it was easy to overlook this race. Incredible.