I would agree that Jeb doesn't want a paper trail, nor accountability. There are articles in the paper almost daily. The felon list debacle cost $2 mil and Jeb told the counties to do it themselves, thus washing his hands of that situation.
The following are some excerpts. Of all the groups, I think the African-Americans are the angriest, and rightly so.
But lawyers representing the American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause of Florida, People for the American Way Foundation and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said the state should require a paper trail in case a physical recount is needed, as it was in the 2000 presidential race in Florida.
MIAMI -- Almost all the electronic records from the first widespread use of touch-screen voting in Miami-Dade County have been lost, stoking concerns that the machines are unreliable as the presidential election draws near. (This was not made public until almost a year after it happened)
But members of the citizens' group Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition said the malfunction underscored the vulnerability of electronic voting records and wiped out data that might have shed light on what problems, if any, existed with touch-screen machines. The group supplied the results of its request to The New York Times.
"This shows that unless we do something now -- or it may very well be too late -- Florida is headed toward being the next Florida,"
"I am committed. I am coming to Florida," Moore said to loud cheers from Democrats at the Florida delegation breakfast in Boston. "Together we will guarantee to every Floridian that their vote will be counted this year." (Well, we can all have dreams)
