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Only one failure with a scanner was reported during the mock election. SARASOTA (Bay News 9) -- This election year Florida's voting machines will be under national scrutiny as millions of voters use new optical scan voting machines for the very first time. To make sure things go smoothly, Sarasota held a mock election this week. "After this last fiasco with Jennings and Buchanan, I think they needed to do something different," said voter Jim Moore. In 2006, the close Congressional race for District 13 sparked a recount after thousands of votes were not recorded on the infamous touch screens. Tensions flared between voting activists and the elections supervisor. Two years later, Democrat Christine Jennings still blames those touch screens for her defeat in the Congressional race against U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan. "We had many... [read full story]
