Nancy Lauer/Tallahassee Democrat-Is Florida ready (Bush steals FL again)

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Nancy Lauer/Tallahassee Democrat-Is Florida ready (Bush steals FL again)

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/special_packages/deja_vote/

Part III: How secure will votes be?

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/special_packages/deja_vote/7432773.htm

Lack of a paper trail in 2004 election concerns some. When playwright Tom Stoppard said "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting," he had no idea how his words would resonate in Florida and across the nation almost three decades later.

PART II: Hurdles remain

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/special_packages/deja_vote/7376572.htm

Florida's voter database won't be ready in time. Florida has spent tens of millions of dollars on new equipment, voter education and poll worker training since the 2000 election meltdown. But none of those reforms will matter if the would-be voter is denied a chance to cast a ballot to begin with.

PART I: Are we ready?

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/special_packages/deja_vote/7329082.htm
As Election 2004 nears, Florida will be under the national microscope once again.The hanging chad is history. You won't find a punch-card voting machine or a butterfly ballot in the state. Except, that is, on display in museums as a bitter reminder of Election 2000 - a 36-day odyssey that placed Florida's hodgepodge elections procedure under a global microscope.