The New York Times is reporting that the 2002 gubernatorial primary voting records in Miami-Dade County in Florida have been wiped out by two computer crashes.
Miami-Dade was one of the counties that held up the 2000 Presidential Election because of the breakdown of their punch-style voting machines and voter confusion with the butterfly-style voting ballots.
In response, Miami-Dade and half of Florida went over to touch-screen voting machines, which were supposed to eliminate any repeat of the 2000 fiasco. But problems continue with votes being lost, records being lost and the machines generally not working as advertised with no paper backup of the records!
It was calculated that 8% of all votes were lost with the new machines.
It may be time to go back to paper ballots and optical scanners in Florida, which provide a paper backup when the technology fails. We are at war, and the nation cannot afford a repeat of the 2000 Election! We need leadership, not confusion and lawsuits.
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