21 September 2002

Dave, to answer your question about the voting screwups, I don't know why the counties with the optical scan systems had problems. That's what we have in Citrus County and it's a really simple system. My guess is that most of the problems arise from poll workers who don't know what they're doing, but I don't know why it should be any different in this state than it is anywhere else. As far as the 2000 election goes, there where really bad things that were done statewide by the Secretary of State's office that seriously messed up the election (such as purging a lot of people from voter rolls who shouldn't have been purged) but I don't think those things happened this time around. We'll see if there's any funny business for the general election. Luckily the counties in our district are pretty competent when it comes to elections.

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