More Voting Problems In Florida« Thread Started on Dec 20, 2006, 7:16am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Voting Problems? In Florida? No Way!By Joel BleifussIf it weren't for Katherine Harris, where would George W. Bush be now?Following the 2000 election a popular bumper sticker in Florida read, “If you think we can’t vote, wait ‘til you see us drive.” But nobody’s laughing now.Unless the Democratic-controlled House votes to hold a new election, Republican Vern Buchanan will represent Florida’s 13th congressional district in the 110th Congress. Buchanan “won” election by beating Democrat Christine Jennings by 369 votes out of 237, 861 cast. The election was held on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines that don’t leave a paper trail. Strangely, according to the machine count, 18,382 voters in Democratic Sarasota County did not bother to cast a ballot in the congressional race (that’s 15 percent of those who voted in the county on November 7). That is unlikely, since it was a hotly contested battle for the seat vacated by former Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who ran for Senate and was soundly defeated. All evidence points to voting machine manipulation. If those 18,382 votes had gone to Jennings by the same percentage with which she carried Sarasota County, 53 percent, she would have won the election by 600 votes.read full article at source> http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2961/