florida votes lost
just in time to foster confidence in the system, cnn is reporting….
Florida officials: Some voting records wiped out [ap via cnn, july 28, 2004]The crashes occurred in May and November of 2003, erasing information from the September 2002 gubernatorial primaries and other elections, elections officials said Tuesday.
The malfunction was made public after the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a citizen’s group, requested all data from the 2002 gubernatorial primary between Democratic candidates Janet Reno and Bill McBride.
that’s one way to prevent unauthorized recounts
nobody that’s tried to work with a computer is surprised. on the other hand, like most technology, the electronic voting machines only lose ballots when you try to use the machines.
