4 years later, Florida set for a new fiasco

[brooklynite]

Persistent voter problems in the state of Florida are threatening to plunge another national election into a crisis.

It was bad enough four years ago, when the presidency was decided by a mere 537 votes and Florida turned our election into an international laughingstock.

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But three weeks before another tight election, major questions remain.

On Tuesday, a routine test of a small portion of Palm Beach County's new electronic touch screen voting machines - the ones that replaced the old punch card system - had to be canceled when the computer system crashed. They'll try a new test tomorrow.

And this week, a group of labor unions and civic groups filed a federal voting rights lawsuit. It charges Jeb Bush's handpicked secretary of state, Glenda Hood, and other election officials with illegally rejecting new voter registration applications from thousands of black and Hispanic voters.

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