Ten years later, infamous 2000 election ballot recount still defines Palm Beach County to many
Updated Mar 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM
And in 2004, she was unseated as supervisor of elections by
<Arthur Anderson, a former school board member with no elections office experience>
who campaigned under a pledge to scrap the touch-screen machines to create a paper trail that would allow recounts.
Within three years, it would become state law.
Gov. Charlie Crist and the legislature mandated that Florida elections be conducted on paper ballots beginning in July 2008.
<So Palm Beach County, which had yet to pay off its touch-screen machines, spent another $5.5 million on optical-scan machines from Sequoia Voting Systems in a no-bid contract.>
But it didn’t take long for the new paper trail to also show its shortcomings.
<Fourteen percent of the votes in a West Palm Beach City Commission election went uncounted on election night because of unfamiliarity with the vote-counting software.>
And a month later, in a nearly dead-even judicial primary in Palm Beach County,
<three full ballot recounts produced different results each time, and it wasn’t only human error.>
In one machine recount, it was discovered that 600 valid ballots were uncounted because the machine failed to properly separate them.
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Such fuckery…