who removed 21 e-voting machines in Broward Co., Fla. ?

[donsu]

Who supervised the removal of 21 Florida e-voting machines in Broward County?

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=476


Writer tries to track down fate of 21 missing voting machines

“Twenty-one touch-screen voting machines in Broward County were replaced because of technical problems, said Gisela Salas, the county’s deputy supervisor of elections. At least one of the machines had shown votes cast for the wrong candidates.”

This striking sentence in the fourteenth paragraph of a Nov. 4 AP wire story was merely the accidental starting point for RAW STORY research into voting irregularities in Broward County, Florida.

-snip- (here is described how the machines were tracked)

I spoke to Lida Rodriguez-Tassef briefly on Nov. 19 and explained that I had been given her name as a possible source for my research into Broward County election issues. Ms. Rodriguez-Tassef was gracious enough to listen to my questions, but said she was not aware of the 21 machines removed in Broward County on Election Day.

She was, however, concerned about “potentially bigger issues,” including the 2002 election which cost Miami-Dade eight million dollars for what Rodriguez-Tassef termed as “worthless, flawed, not secure, and generally inferior hardware and software.”

Rodriguez-Tassef also pointed out that “no one seemed to have monitored the early votes cast,” and that the “votes sat on the machines for 2 week unsupervised.”

-snip- (more tracking of the machines)

This reporter stated that “Herald has already done an exhaustive investigation,” and “21 machines were not really that many considering how many machines were employed in the state of Florida.”

-snip-

Through nothing more than a gargantuan amount of coffee and very little sleep, I did manage to find one news item mentioning 21 voting machines in Broward County. A CBS 4 transcript read much the same as the initial AP article, but included an additional sentence: “The machines were taken to the county’s voter equipment center to extract the votes that had been cast.” So began, again, a flurry of unanswered emails and phone calls.

-snip-

I have recently forwarded my various emails with the Broward SOE staff to Representative Robert Wexler’s staff (D-FL) and am eagerly awaiting a response.
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voting in Florida is a joke

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Maybe this guy:

[donsu]

2. is that a guy? what is written on the bags?

nt

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Hey, you're right. That's a chick.

I don't know what's on the bags but this is a photo from Ohio. It has nothing to do with Florida. I just wanted to post the pic.

[theHandpuppet]

4. The top line reads, "OFFICIAL BALLOTS"

Can't read the rest, though. I believe this photo was taken from a polling place somewhere near Cincinnati, as I recall.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. Context, please.

What should I infer from this photo?