Jeb Bush lectures reporters that *he* advocated for opti-scans, not touch screens.

[seafan]

.....when asked about the serious problems with the 18,000+ undervotes on touchscreen machines in the hotly contested Congressional race in Sarasota County, FL:





Jeb Feels Better Now

By Dara Kam
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

What could be a protracted recount in the race to determine who will succeed U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris in Congress has raised new concerns about Florida’s voting systems.
And the mystery over why more than 18,000 Sarasota County voters did not cast ballots in that race alone has renewed criticism of the paperless electronic voting machines in use there and in Florida’s most populous counties, including Palm Beach.

Gov. Jeb Bush lectured reporters on Tuesday that he personally advocated for optical scan machines that use paper ballots.
“Just to give everybody a sense of history, since you all seem to forget things collectively,” Bush began, “The recommendation that I embraced was to have optical scanning devices to be the type of machines.”

But lawmakers refused to endorse a statewide uniform voting system, he went on.

“The Florida Legislature went a different way, led by counties, all of whom…are controlled by the Democrats. The irony of this is that these electronic machines were embraced in places like Dade and Broward and Palm Beach before they were across the state. I just wanted to make sure everybody had that historical anecdote. It’s maybe irrelevant as it relates to Sarasota but it made me feel better,” Bush concluded.

But, WAIT! Jeb conveniently forgot to mention one little detail:


Miami Herald

BY MARC CAPUTO, PHIL LONG AND JACK DOLAN
November 15, 2006

Miami-Dade and Broward use the same type of machines as Sarasota, Election Systems and Software's iVotronic.

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Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday said that Florida's large urban counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward, lobbied for touch-screen machines even though his own task force in 2001 recommended optical scan machines. He noted that large counties are primarily Democratic, but didn't mention that his one-time running mate in 1994, Sandra Mortham, was a lobbyist for both ES&S and the Florida Association of Counties at the time.

47 more days, and we ALL will feel better.

[Tiggeroshii]

1. That guy has bullshit smeared all over his face....

And it wreaks even in California....

[seafan]

2. Now, it's 46 more days, y'all! n/t