State Sen. Ron Klein wants absentee ballots in touch-screen precincts.

[kskiska]

TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Ron Klein urged Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday to give voters in the 15 counties that use touch-screen voting machines the option of casting paper absentee ballots, a move that Palm Beach County's top elections official rejected as "the most absurd thing I've heard yet."

"We've got four optical scanner machines and 700 precincts," a clearly exasperated Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said. "How are we going to do it?"

Although residents of all of Florida's 67 counties can already cast their votes on paper by requesting an absentee ballot from their local elections supervisors, Klein, D-Delray Beach, said he wants voters to have the ability to cast the paper ballots from each precinct.

"It's not such a huge list for the supervisors to expand this," Klein said in Tallahassee on Thursday morning. "We're just trying to make it easier for voters."

But LePore, reached in West Palm Beach, said what Klein was asking was a big deal. In addition to having to buy at least 696 more optical-scan machines, Palm Beach County would have to print enough paper ballots for the county's 710,000 voters and distribute nearly 200 variations of the ballot to different precincts.

All that, she said, would "guarantee" disaster.

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[TahitiNut]

1. Looks like Butterfly LePore might have to work a little overtime.

Uncompensated, I hope. :shrug:

[UpInArms]

2. these numbskulls have had 4 freakin' years to fix

their shitty mess and this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they didn't do anything but spend taxpayer money on lousy untrustworthy pieces of shit.

Optical scanners and paper were such an easy and obvious fix to their problems.

What stupid pieces of shit they are. I wish we had a "spit" icon.

[Endangered Specie]

3. "Urge Gov. Jeb Bush"? Talk about falling on deaf ears.