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obamaforme Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 03:42 PM
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New voting glitches in Florida
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 03:45 PM by obamaforme
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New voting glitches raise concerns in Florida
Palm Beach problems have officials worried about potential repeat of 2000
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By Alex Johnson and Kerry Sanders
MSNBC and NBC News
updated 9:54 a.m. ET, Wed., Sept. 24, 2008
TAMPA, Fla. - Voters cast their ballots in a razor-close election, and opponents head to court as a judge approves another recount.

Sound familiar?

Welcome back to Palm Beach County, where the more things change, the more they stay the same.

With 41 days to go before the presidential election, election officials and political operatives in this heavily populated Florida county — famous for overvotes, undervotes, butterfly ballots and hanging chads — are worried about a repeat performance of the chaos that clouded the outcome of the 2000 presidential race.

Two recounts, and counting
Those concerns have been fueled by an otherwise obscure local judge’s race.

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