Today Premier/Diebold has again had to accept the blame for voting machine failures. This time the optical scan machines that had tallied absentee ballots in Sarasota County would not upload the totals to the main server and refused to post elections in Hillsborough County. Election officials in Sarasota ended up having to count 10,000 ballots by hand. It is a good thing they had the paper ballots to count by hand or those votes would have been lost....

• Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - State Will Recount Votes In Carey-Catlin Judicial Election
  http://www2.tbo.com/cont...icial-ele/news-politics/
• Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough Election Equipment's Maker To Explain Problems
  http://www2.tbo.com/cont...plain-pro/news-politics/
• Featured - FL: Sarasota County - Problems slow counting of 10,000 ballots
  http://www.heraldtribune...unting_of_10_000_ballots
• National: Dispatch from Denver: Suppressing the Vote, Protecting the Vote
  http://us.oneworld.net/a...ing-vote-protecting-vote
• National: Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections (2008)
  http://realmovienews.com/dvd/reviews/2502
• National: Candidates Nationwide Called Upon to Challenge Suspicious Elections
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6318
• CA: Napa activists focus on e-voting, 'Hacking Democracy'
  http://www.napavalleyreg...b4eba3664a2183700037.txt
• CO: Editorial – Voting system offers fewer excuses
  http://www.journal-advoc...em-offers-fewer-excuses/
• CT: The Outsourced State
  http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=537
• FL: Diebold Problems Affect Florida Primary Election
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6325
• FL: A Smooth Florida Election? Not Quite
  As State Moves From Touch-Screen Voting Machines, Delays And Software Problems Still Surface
  http://www.cbsnews.com/s...tional/main4387900.shtml
• FL: Voter turnout worst in 10 years
  http://www.tampabay.com/...ctions/article785994.ece
• FL: Brevard County - Touch-screen machine glitch crops up again, and slows vote count tonight
  http://www.floridatoday....EWS/80826069/1006/news01
• FL: Broward County - Paper ballots make generally smooth debut in Broward County
  http://www.sun-sentinel....gday0827,0,4042782.story
• FL: Broward and Palm Beach Counties - Minor glitches; minor confusion at polls
  http://www.sun-sentinel....ng,0,746838.story?page=1
• FL: Hillsborough Supervisor of elections says they did good job
  http://www.tampabays10.c...oryid=88339&catid=8
• FL: Hillsborough County - Johnson on defensive after slow election
  http://www.myfoxtampabay...e=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
• FL: New optical scan machines win approval from Martin County voters
  http://www.tcpalm.com/ne...hines-win-approval-from/
• FL: Miami-Dade and Broward Counties - Minor voting glitches in Broward; Dade's 2-page ballot criticized
  http://www.miamiherald.com/516/story/658416.html
• FL: Palm Beach County - Supervisor's name on rulers might violate election laws
  http://www.palmbeachpost...26/z10a_rulers_0827.html
• FL: Palm Beach County elections supervisor Arthur Anderson defeated
  http://www.sun-sentinel....7pnaug27,0,2712674.story
• FL: Palm Beach County - Circuit Judge Wennet, challenger Abramson watch as provisional ballots are tallied
  http://www.palmbeachpost...08/08/27/0827judges.html
• FL: Computer glitch delays vote count in Sarasota County
  http://www.wwsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=8911224
• KS: Other Voices: Paper backups a must for computerized voting
  http://www.cjonline.com/...2708/opi_323443038.shtml
• MT: 10K ask to vote absentee
  http://www.missoulian.co...ws/mtregional/news08.txt
• OH: Politics sully Ohio absentee ballot plans
  http://www.cleveland.com...#038;storylist=cleveland
• OH: Trumbull County - Trumbull officials adopt polling gear procedure
  http://www.vindy.com/new...-polling-gear-procedure/
• PA: Voters' rights groups seek paper-ballot backup
  http://www.mcall.com/new...301aug27,0,1891456.story
• TX: Travis County - Travis commissioners urged to end e-voting
  Group says machines are too unreliable; county votes to buy more anyway.
  http://www.statesman.com...al/08/27/0827voting.html
• UT: Price the Vote: Federal money for electronic voting runs out, but the meter on voting machines keeps on ticking
  http://www.slweekly.com/...D1-13A2-9F7F9D49BEFF0106

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