Error Delays Fla. Chad-Free Voting
Associated Press
BOCA RATON, Fla. —
The touch-screen voting system that replaced Palm Beach County’s infamous butterfly ballots and hanging chads has proved vulnerable to human error.
Elections were held in a dozen cities Tuesday, but a Boca Raton poll worker forgot to deliver three cartridges from the machines, delaying final results past midnight.
“We would have been done” by 9 p.m., said elections supervisor Theresa LePore. The cartridges were picked up at the home of the worker, who was fired.
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