Witness Suzanne Goldstein: I’d like to read this affidavit that was prepared on October 27th.
<Reading> I’m a registered voter in the state of Florida, precinct 4176 in the southeast <inaudible> Palm Beach County. On October 27th, 2004, I went to cast my vote early at the Supervisor of Elections office in West Palm Beach, Florida. I stood in line starting at about 2 pm. At around 3:30 pm I was standing in front of a touchscreen voting machine and started to vote. When the screen came up it showed my choices for U.S. President. I touched the circle for John Kerry and I saw the checkmark appear in the circle for John Kerry… and I touched the screen to bring up my next set of choices. I continued in this manner.
After placing each vote I looked to see that the checkmark appeared in the correct circle before moving on to the next voting screen. In this manner I voted a straight Democratic ticket. I looked at the last screen – the review screen that is supposed to show all the voting choices I made. I was surprised to see the screen indicated my voting preferences as a straight Republican ticket. George W. Bush for U.S. President, Mel Martinez and on down the line. After a moment of looking at the screen I called my husband and the clerk. A woman came over to me. I showed her the screen and told her that everything that I see is opposite and wrong and that these are not the candidates I checked. She said, “Well let’s just go back and look at your ballot because you could’ve made some mistakes”. I told her I would not touch anything. My thinking was that I wanted others to see this screen. At that point another woman came over and said basically the same thing. After a few minutes, Tony Enos, E N O S, I think is the spelling of the last name, came over. I told him that I would not touch anything and that I wanted an attorney from outside to come in. After a few minutes an attorney did come in. He introduced himself to me as Jeffrey Stein. I asked for and received his card. I explained the problem to him. Tony Enos and the two women confirmed to Mr. Stein that the final review screen showed Republican choices. Mr. Enos said, “Well let’s review your ballot and your choices”. When we did that, we saw my checkmarks in the circles for John Kerry and the Democratic slate. At this point Mr. Enos told me I could go ahead and cast my ballot and not pay any attention to the review screen because my actual choices would override the review screen. I was told, go ahead and vote with confidence. I did not do that. I asked, how could this have happened? Mr. Enos said that the review screen I saw was probably the previous voter’s and somehow it didn’t clear. I told him I didn’t understand that explanation because when you start to vote you put a card into the machine and the machine holds it until you cast your ballot. When that card comes out the machine is supposed to be cleared. I requested that this machine be removed because it was not working properly. One of the clerks left and came back and made preparations to shut down the machine and remove it. They cleared my screen and gave me back the card I was using and showed me the tape that comes out of the ballot machine. At that point I noted the number of the machine – 21660. I was directed to the voting machine on my right where I began the voting process again. I looked at the review screen at the end and this time all the voting preferences were correct. I touched the screen to submit the ballot and left.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=319233 I added
emphasis that I didn't have in the original transcript (I was the one who attended this hearing, recorded it, and then posted the transcript on DU).