Florida - Again?

In the recount debacle of 2000, I was ashamed to admit that I'm a Florida native. Once again, my home staters are making me nervous. Today's New York Times has an interesting - and scary - story on problems that continue to plague their voting systems. Seems the roll of felons to be purged was only the beginning:

Three years after Gov. Jeb Bush announced a new voting system that he called "a model for the rest of the nation," Florida is grappling with some of the same problems that threw the 2000 presidential election into chaos, as well as new ones that critics say could cause even more confusion this November.

The pResident's brother, Jeb, has had four years to clean up this mess. A mess that nearly threw the entire country into a Constitutional crisis. Despite all this time and several millions of dollars spent in the effort, it appears that not only have they not fixed what was wrong, the things they've done - like electronic voting machines - have only made it worse.

A recent analysis by The Sun-Sentinel found that touch-screen machines in South Florida failed to record votes eight times more often than optical-scan machines in the March presidential primary.