Area voters in Florida Primary are reporting problems at polls

One voter was told by poll workers there was no Democratic primary today

On Florida Primary day, voters are reporting problems across Central Florida from Daytona Beach to Hunter's Creek. Among the precincts experiencing glitches was one in Orange County where voters were told by poll workers early on there was no Democratic primary today.

Phil Marjason said poll workers at precinct 145 in Hunter's Creek would not give him a Democratic ballot.

"I thought it was plain wrong," he said. "We need to get Florida straightened out."


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-polls012908,0,4785381.story

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From the Orlando Sentinel article:

In Volusia County, a voting discrepancy at one early voting location has been corrected, said Election Supervisor Ann McFall.

Election officials noticed a four-vote discrepancy between the number of ballots signed for and the number of ballots cast at the Daytona Beach City Island early voting site. The vote count came up one vote shy on Jan. 23 and three votes shy on Jan. 26, McFall said.

The county's elections canvassing board decided Tuesday to re-feed the ballots from the City Island location. The process turned up the four lost ballots.

"Apparently the machine failed to count the four votes the first time," McFall said.

The glitch shouldn't be cause for concern, she said.

"We had the paper ballots to do the repeat," she said. "Three other voting precincts got it perfectly and 10 out of 12 days got it perfectly in Daytona. Our internal system caught it."

the system in Florida is broken and no one in power in the state seems to care at all. It is all about a football game and has nothing to do with a fair, clean, honest election.

The voters are simply trapped.

I feel like Florida hasn't had a correct count since last century. But I go anyway.

in Gadsden county where I vote. It had counted 368 ballots but when we were there a few minutes ago, it wasn't reading any. The poll workers were just putting them in the storage part of the reader until later.