FL NEW VOTE: "The party would then pay a private firm to count the votes, Mr. Bubriski said."

[mod mom]

YIKES!!! WE NEED TRANSPARENCY!


EXCERPT: Under the plan being finalized, most of the state's roughly
four million registered Democrats would receive mail ballots in early
May and the vote would be counted in early June, after each voter's
signature was verified. The party would run the contest, said Mark
Bubriski, a state party spokesman, but would pay the state to
authenticate ballot signatures. The party would then pay a private
firm to count the votes, Mr. Bubriski said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/12/america/12delegates.php

Democrats in Florida Are Near Plan for New Vote
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: March 12, 2008
nytimes.com


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Democratic Party officials here are close to
completing a draft plan for a new mail-in primary that would take
place by early June, a proposal that seeks to give Florida delegates a
role in the party's presidential contest, several people involved in
the discussions said Tuesday.

A spokesman for Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat who has been pushing
for a mail-in contest, said Mr. Nelson expected the Florida Democratic
Party to finalize details of the complex plan as soon as Wednesday.
The state party would most likely submit the proposal to Howard Dean,
chairman of the Democratic National Committee, by week's end, said the
spokesman, Dan McLaughlin. Mr. Nelson is a supporter of Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

[NightWatcher]

1. please repost this in GD and GDP

whomever pays for it will get the results they want. Rendell (PA) wanted to pay for half of it, personally.

This is not America. If they count an election that is bought and paid for, how are we able to trust anything about our elections? Forget Diebold, this is just plain wrong.

[mod mom]

2. I'm over my daily allowable quota in GD;P but here it is in GD:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2996804

[flashl]

3. A private company that Florida hires? Oh, that's reassuring.

A recent episode of private company that the state of Florida employed to score it schools FCAT tests should give you an idea of what to expect.