Monday, October 18, 2004
It Begins...
CTV: Voters begin casting ballots for U.S. President0 comments
Within hours of the opening of advance polls in the American presidential election, problems were being reported in the state of Florida.
Advanced polls opened in the Sunshine State early Monday, under new rules imposed in the wake of the 2000 election when the presidency was decided in Florida by only 537 votes.
Within an hour, a Democratic state legislator reported getting an incomplete absentee ballot in Palm Beach County.
The partial paper ballot was "not a good start," Shelley Vana said, commenting on the paper absentee ballot she received -- without one of its two pages, including the proposed amendments to the state constitution.
When she told election workers about the oversight, Vana said her concerns were met with indifference.
"There was absolutely no concern on the part of the folks at the Supervisor of Elections Office that this page was missing," she said.
And in Orange County, voting ground to a halt after the touch-screen voting system crashed for about ten minutes.
"...And off we go!"
A senior deputy elections supervisor could not explain the brief outage
"Well, let us explain it to you, mac. It's because the GOP is gonna win this race, ya see?
And even if the GOP don't win this race, it's gonna win this race, ya get what I'm telling ya? Ya see?
Look, mac. You're a smart guy. Ya ever hear of a place called Belarus?"
posted by Gotham 4:19 PM
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