| Truth, Lies, & Politics When is a coincidence too much of a coincidence to be one? |
Is your vote worth 10 minutes? 20? An hour? Apparently not in Florida |
| Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning was not pleased when a federal judge ordered elections officials to stop enforcing Florida’s “no match” law. Browning said he will immediately appeal and questions the timing of the decision. Others might question how two years have passed and 14,000 disenfranchised Florida residents are not yet legitimized registered voters, or definitively proven illegal (not just rejected by a database “no match” on social security, driver’s license, name or other clerical snafu. http://election.dos.state.fl.us/hava/pdf/revisedHAVAplan. pdf). Browning, a former Pasco County Supervisor of Elections was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist in 2006. So Browning has only had one year to constructively resolve the 14,000:
If and when technology fails, one year to manually reprocess, communicate and concede these people their right to vote. What would it take to manually check and fix 14,000 should-be voters over a one year period? Less than 40 voter registration corrections per day. How many minutes per correction, 10 minutes, 20, an hour? But then, Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning might still be wondering why he spent so much time trying to prove to the public that the voting machines are accurate and secure and whether it was worth the effort, when he should be spending time running good elections (http: //www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12586276). Does Kurt Browning also wonder if it’s worth the effort to ensure voters in his state can vote? Original Content at http://www.opednews. com/articles/opedne_lani_mas_071219_is_your_vote_worth_1.htm |
Fiction Stops Here |
It's the Voters’ Fault The DOG ATE MY BALLOT and Other URBAN LEGENDS! |
| More on the "no match law: It appears that anyone with a name change, misspelling or re-spelling, address change, and/or clerical error/correction could be the brunt of Florida’s “no-match no-vote” law. So add women to this list of Hispanics who sometimes use hyphenated surnames and African Americans who sometimes use non-traditional spellings. These groups just happen to form a united front and speak a collective voice. But also consider Florida’s Secretary of State Kurt Browning who has been in office a year but has not figured out a solution to his procedures that disenfranchise 14,000 Florida residents. Next time it could be me... it could even be .... http://www.debatepolicy.com/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=9856 |
| As Florida Secretary of State downgrades Florida’s voting nightmares to urban legend and people problems, voters wonder if he knows who won 2006’s Congressional District-13 and if he’s found those lost 18,000 votes. If you don’t know you’ve got a problem, Mr. Browning, you can’t fix it. |
Florida's Secretary of State, Kurt Browning kicked-off Election Day in spin-mode saying, 99% of the problems with touch screen voting machines can be traced back to people (you and me) or pollworkers. Nothing wrong there, right? Nothing except pollworkers are YOUR team, YOUR watch, Mr. Browning. If your systems are too complex, if your procedures aren't clear, if your pollworkers aren't trained, that's not a people problem. It's your system, your problem. As for the voting machines, were they too complex to be used successfully? Was voter training required? Or did the machines malfunction? It's still your system, your problem. If you don’t know you’ve got a problem, Mr. Browning, you can’t fix it. By nightfall Browning skewed history, "We're finding a lot of this stuff is like urban legend, where there's a report of something happened, but when you investigate it, there's nothing to it." Nothing to 18,000+ votes lost and unaccounted for? Florida still doesn't know who won in Sarasota’ s 2006 Congressional District-13. Do you? If you don’t know you’ve got a problem, Mr. Browning, you can’t fix it. Lest we forget last summer’s blunder, Browning questioned, “if the amount of time spent in defending the voting system & trying to prove to the public that it's accurate & secure is worth the effort when we should be spending our time running good elections.” Oops. The voting system is not secure & until it is, you can't run a good election. Still, his words drill to the core of Florida's voting woes. There's time to do it over, but never time to do it right. Ironically, Browning’s comment followed state tests conducted by California and Florida that revealed significant problems with the voting machines. California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified California’s machines. Kurt Browning continues to defend Florida’s. If you don’t know you’ve got a problem, Mr. Browning, you can’t fix it. |
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