House to begin probe into Fla. election

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Posted on Mon, Apr. 16, 2007

House to begin probe into Fla. election
PHIL DAVIS
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A House task force will take the first steps
Tuesday in an investigation of a Florida congressional election
decided by 369 votes amid complaints that voting machines
failed to count thousands of electronic ballots.

Republican Vern Buchanan was declared the winner of the
election, a result Democrat Christine Jennings is challenging
in Florida court.

The House, which has final authority over its membership,
typically waits until legal challenges are completed before
taking action. But Florida Democrats last month asked the
House Administration Committee to begin reviewing the
election after reports of an anomaly in the touch-screen
voting machines that recorded about 18,000 skipped votes
in Sarasota County.

Committee Chairwoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif.,
created the three-member task force to investigate the
issue and report back to the full committee.

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Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/17087662.htm

[tblue]

1. After that, they should probe the 2000 Fla. election. They really don't wanna go thru an election

like that again, do they? And the darn thing never was even reasonably 'probed' by the gov't.

[durtee librul]

2. So they find evidence of wrong doing and then what?

[Eugene]

4. The article suggests a revote.

Congress has the final say over who wins a seat.

[YDogg]

3. about darned time

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Yes!

bout danged time!

[superconnected]

6. Well, good. And yeah, hopefully they'll probe the 2000 election next.

those perps are still out running around.

Come to think of it, wonder where that nutso lady katherine harris went... loony asylum.

[LisaM]

7. Which one? all of them?

LOL. Where do you start draining a swamp?

[durtee librul]

8. Let's start in Cheney and Scalia's backyard.

[cyberpj]

9. Wasn't there a similar problem - and/or wasn't Clint Curtis contesting his loss too? nt