Palm Beach - Board vexed by another disputed election

[FlaGranny]

I hope this isn't a dupe - I did a search for it and could not find the story. I've been away for the weekened and might have missed it.

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"Required by state law to conduct a "manual recount" of an election in which most of the voting was done on paperless electronic voting machines, Broward County's elections canvassing board threw up its hands. After debating about 90 minutes Friday afternoon, it decided to seek more guidance from the state Division of Elections and revisit the issue Monday.

Palm Beach County's elections canvassing board grappled with the issue for half an hour Friday night, then voted to certify its portion of the election results after determining there were no actual "ballots" to recount.

The counties were responding to Tuesday's tight special election for a state House seat that covers portions of Broward and Palm Beach counties. Out of 10,844 votes cast, returns showed Ellyn Bogdanoff defeating Oliver Parker by 12 votes, with 137 voters casting blank ballots on touch-screen voting machines."

More at: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/news_f3ff583cd1c3223d00af.html

[truthspeaker]

1. can't do a recount because there are no paper ballots

That sums up the whole problem right there.

[libview]

2. Man, those Florida people just can't get a handle

on this voting thing. Maybe it's something in the water.

[FlaGranny]

3. I find it particularly interesting

that 137 people had ballots that showed "no vote." In order words, they took the trouble of going to vote in a special election where there was only ONE race - then they didn't bother to actually vote? Hmmmm! There you have, in front of you, proof positive that electronic voting machines are not totally reliable.