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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Today Premier/Diebold has again had to accepted the blame for voting machine failures. This time the optical scan machines that had tallied absentee ballots in Sarasota County would not upload the totals to the main server and refused to post elections in Hillsborough County. Election officials in Sarasota ended-up having to count 10,000 ballots by hand. It is a good thing they had the paper ballots to count by hand or those votes would have been lost....

Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - State Will Recount Votes In Carey-Catlin Judicial Election LINK

Featured - FL: Hillsborough County - Hillsborough Election Equipment's Maker To Explain Problems LINK

Featured - FL: Sarasota County - Problems slow counting of 10,000 ballots LINK

National: Dispatch from Denver: Suppressing the Vote, Protecting the Vote LINK

National: Uncounted: The New Math Of American Elections (2008) LINK

National: Candidates Nationwide Called Upon to Challenge Suspicious Elections LINK

CA: Napa activists focus on e-voting, 'Hacking Democracy' LINK

CO: Editorial – Voting system offers fewer excuses LINK

CT: The Outsourced State LINK

FL: Diebold Problems Affect Florida Primary Election LINK

FL: A Smooth Florida Election? Not Quite
As State Moves From Touch-Screen Voting Machines, Delays And Software Problems Still Surface LINK

FL: Voter turnout worst in 10 years LINK

FL: Brevard County - Touch-screen machine glitch crops up again, and slows vote count tonight LINK

FL: Broward County - Paper ballots make generally smooth debut in Broward County LINK

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