Early voting is underway today in Florida, or would be if it weren’t for computer crashes on the first day. The Florida 2004 Election Fiasco is already officially under way, get used to it.
Susan Emert waited for two hours – starting at 8:20 a.m. — before she finally had to leave for work.
Zwanger said at one point there were 63 people in line, most of whom had gone home without voting by 11 a.m.
“They had all the time from when they said the voting machines will be used, all the time to perfect them, and here we are, up the creek,” she said, throwing her arms wildly up in the air. “This is really another black eye for the county. I’m so fed up.”
Most of the voters waiting in the line were seniors, and many shared Emert’s frustration. They repeatedly uttered phrases such as, “This is ridiculous,” and “This is so frustrating.”
Lucien Gennaro, a police aide in Coral Springs, waited for an hour at a public library to cast his vote Monday morning, before he had to leave for work.
“A lot of people who were waiting just left. I’ll try again tomorrow,” he said. “It was a little frustrating after what happened in 2000.”
In Palm Beach County, the center of the madness during the 2000 presidential recount, a state legislator said she wasn’t given a complete absentee ballot when she asked not to use the electronic touch-screen machines. In Orange County, the computer system that lists voters briefly crashed, paralyzing voting in Orlando and its immediate suburbs. And in Broward County several sites had problems with laptops connected to elections headquarters.
Here also is an AP story
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