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A recount Thursday of the nearly 1,700 ballots cast in the May 12 mayoral election in Helotes yielded no change in the number of votes, officials said, confirming that incumbent Jon Allan lost to Tom Schoolcraft by 21 votes.Allan picked up one more vote from a provisional ballot that was verified after Election [...]

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Florida plans to return to paper ballot system | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
DELRAY BEACH, FLA.— Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday announced plans to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s largest counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning [...]

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Poll failures put results of future ballots in doubt | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

Problems not addressed
Voting experts say it is impossible to know how many votes were not counted that should have been. But in Florida alone, the discrepancies reported across Sarasota County and three others amount to more than 60,000 votes. In Colorado, as [...]

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So what does our little precinct tour mean? In terms of drawing conclusions, nothing. It wasn’t scientific, it wasn’t random, it wasn’t even planned. We’re pretty certain about the number of machines available but we could have easily missed some of the poll workers. Our observations prove nothing.
It does mean that somewhere someone should have [...]

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Yesterday, I was just too shell-shocked to post about this. I will talk a little bit about that in a while but right now–election day. I got to my polling place around 10:30. There were 6 machines and 4 workers, two behind desks, one in the line and one setting up machines. There was quite [...]

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So what was your voting experience like? Mine was pretty positive. I pulled up to my precinct polling place at around 9:00 am and easily found a place to park. A poll worker was putting up signs in the parking lot to point to which entrance to go to.
Inside, there were two tables set up, [...]

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