Voting begins in Florida and problems are quick to follow

FLORIDIANS began casting votes yesterday and within an hour problems cropped up.

Voting begins in Florida and problems are quick to follow

In Palm Beach County, the centre of the madness during the recount four years ago, a Democratic state legislator said she wasn’t given a complete absentee ballot when she asked to opt for paper instead of the electronic touch-screen machines.

Several voting sites in Broward County had problems with laptops connected to elections headquarters. And a brief computer system crash in Orange County paralysed voting in Orlando and its immediate suburbs.

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