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Problems in Florida

U.S. News and World Report’s Amanda Ruggeri analyzes some of the impending voting issues, especially the problem with new voting machines and new voting formats. She tells of an issue, again in the swing state of Florida, during its late August primary. A tight race in Palm Beach County caused a series of THREE recounts and then officials took two weeks to account for nearly 3,500 ballots thought missing, but were later found on shelves with the other ballots, many of which could not be interpreted. As the article notes, “voters seemed to find the ballot’s brand-new format, in which arrows had to be connected, completely unintelligible. Some had checked or circled their answers; others wrote jokes in the margins; one covered the paper with lipstick kisses.” Florida is such a key battleground state that a fiasco like this so close to the election makes many nervous.

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