Here's a good article on the Voting problems in Fla (Day 1) St Pete Times

[cthrumatrix]

Voters abide waits, glitches
Dozens walk away rather than wait for technicians to solve computer conundrums. Still, thousands turn out.
By DAVID KARP and JEFF TESTERMAN
Published October 19, 2004

snip

Florida Democratic Party chairman Scott Maddox called on elections supervisors to distribute paper ballots when voting computers do not work properly.

"Such minor issues are to be expected," Maddox wrote in a letter to supervisors, "and we have every reason to expect that your diligent staff members will solve these problems."

Three of the counties with problems - Hillsborough, Orange and Broward - use the same Internet provider to connect computers at polling sites with a central computer database, said Jenny Nash, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Glenda Hood.

The computer glitch did not affect the controversial touch screen machines installed in 15 counties after the 2000 election.

Instead, the problem shut down the laptop computers that elections officials need to check voters' identities. When voters arrive at the polls, officials use those computers to verify voters' identities and ensure they get the correct ballot.

snip

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/19/Decision2004/Voters_abide_waits__g.shtml

Many people walked away...rather than stand in line. That sums it up.

Plus...the "central database" is interesting. This means that Glenda Hood would know on a daily basis - who's winning. She's a repug...you figure that out with Jebbie.

[cthrumatrix]

1. Just a "co - inky dink"...not to worry

"They're usually fairly reliable," said Dean. "It's coincidental it happened on the first day of early voting."

Officials in Pinellas' election office were still trying to figure out Monday evening what went wrong.

"I know they are working on it," Deputy Supervisor of Elections Joan Brock said.

She said laptop computers were not working at voting sites in East Lake, Tarpon Springs and Dunedin.

At the main elections center in Largo, it took 45 minutes for workers to get the computers working when the polls opened, said Robin Mitchell, an election observer for the Pinellas Democratic Party.

same link

[Supersedeas]

2. many VOTERS walked away while Glenda is in her office smiling

[endnote]

3. I'm telling you... All this sending data over to a central computer

Seems too fucking easy to screw with...

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. You know what's very interesting, which I just learned by reading this

article?

In Seminole County, the laptops are NOT connected to the database. They use their own self-contained database. Seminole is Republican. Orange is Democratic, Broward should be as well. I don't know about Hillsborough. That means that the database can be tampered with from someone with an outside line in Democratic counties?

[cthrumatrix]

6. can somebody help us with the "fraud angle" here... it's sounds

too easy to be tampered with.

[DemocracyInaction]

5. Isn't this just a re-do only this time with computers of the tactic

they used before in these Dem communities. Make the people in line stand and suffer until they leave because they are elderly. Dems should be there passing out chairs, water and food.