palmbeach ballots

Palm Beach County lost 3 percent of the votes cast in the primary last week (Ummm, nothing to see here, folks, just . . ..)
OK, so the intended-Democrat-friendly butterfly ballot from 2000 turned out to be way-un-friendly to Democrats. And the entire state has chucked the touch-screens from 2004 (paper-trail problems). So now they're onto state-of-the-art Sequoia optical-scan machines. In one judicial race, fella won by 17 votes, triggering a statute-mandated recount, which he proceeded to lose by 60 votes, and in the process the total of all ballots cast in the county fell from 102,523 scanned by precinct machines to 99,045 scanned by central-office machines. La-de-dah-de-dah . . .. Just move on along . . .. Palm Beach Post