County (Broward) still at a loss over phantom vote machines BBV

[Bushfire]

The Broward Supervisor of Elections Office is hunting for 15 voting machines that went missing last year. Each cost taxpayers $3,000.
BY ERIKA BOLSTAD
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Losses in

thousands

UP FRONT | MISSING PROPERTY

A year later, they're still missing. Fifteen electronic (ES&S) iVotronic machines exist on paper, but can't be located in the Broward County elections warehouse.

Along with a communications pack with a printer and modem, the missing equipment adds up to $48,906, a price tag that irritates county commissioners who have been wrangling over a budget with Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant. ''I'm very upset that there's such poor inventory control,'' said Commissioner Suzanne Gunzburger.

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But Oliphant's losses are just over 10 percent of the total value of missing county property, according to a just-finished annual accounting. Missing items include laptop computers, tools, electronics and furniture, totaling $473,005.

The $3,000 touch-screen voting machines are among the most expensive items the county can't find.

more...

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/6977369.htm

Security is just as bad as Georgia where they were kept in the trunk of cars.

[papau]

1. So 15 pre-voted machines show up in Florida and Bush "wins" -will

media be upset - this time.

Will they ask about machine swap out protection?

Or will any comment be "partisan and unaccountable" and something the media will not let the Democratic presidential candidate get away with, as they help the nation "get over it"?

[mhr]

2. So Let's See 15 Voting Machines In the Hands of Republicans

How destructive could that be?

[Spazito]

3. That brings up an interesting question...

given there is no voter verified paper ballot given out, say, with a machine registry #, how does anyone know that votes submitted for tally didn't come from one of those "lost" machines?