And we wonder why Florida went wrong....


A poll shortly before the election had put him 17 points ahead of his nearest rival....Danciu sued for access to the Sequoia source code to see if it was flawed.

This is quite the interesting article, not sure on the slant if any here but it is from a UK based website.

Some of the more startling tidbits in this multi page article...

Blissfully unaware of this, LePore spent $14.4m (£8m) on her own Sequoia system and unveiled it for local elections in March 2002. It seems to have fallen at the first hurdle. A former mayor of Boca Raton, Emil Danciu, was flabbergasted to finish third in a race for a seat on Boca Raton city council. A poll shortly before the election had put him 17 points ahead of his nearest rival....Danciu sued for access to the Sequoia source code to see if it was flawed. He was told that the source code was considered a trade secret under Florida law, and that even LePore and her staff were not authorised to examine it, on pain of criminal prosecution

or this gem

Two weeks later, something even stranger happened. In the town of Wellington, a run-off election for mayor was decided by just four votes - but 78 votes did not register on the machines at all. This meant - assuming for a moment that the machines were not lying - that 78 people had driven to the polls, not voted, and gone home again.

or this one...

Wexler went further, sponsoring a professor, Arthur Anderson, to challenge LePore for her job....It was certainly odd that LePore was organising an election in which she was a prominent candidate. It was odder still when, on the August polling day, sheriff's deputies arrived at the supervisor's office and surrounded the building with squad cars and "do not cross" barriers. Such police presence at election sites is technically illegal.

I'm telling you, Florida is going to fuck the US again unless Kerry continues to ignore Bush's attack ads. Then Kerry will torpedo himself.

Posted: Tue - September 28, 2004 at 06:40 PM           |

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