Obama Leads In All Polls

Florida Voting Machines Malfunctioning

October 21. 2008

Barack Obama (Democrat)

Democrat, Barack Obama, has been leading rival, Republican, John McCain, in just about every poll. However, it is not a foolproof indicator of who will win the election. The race to the finish for both candidates should be viewed as a fight to the end, election day, as nothing can be taken for granted.

John McCain and Sarah Palin (Republicans)

In other news, voting machines are already malfunctioning and rejecting ballots. It disrupted early voting today in Florida.

Problems with machines left some of the record numbers uneasy.

Malfunctions left some voters wondering Monday if their vote would count, while election officials throughout Northeast Florida were slammed with record early voting turnouts.

Early voting started Monday and continues through the weekend before Election Day at select locations.

Jerry Holland, Duval County supervisor of elections, said seven out of 15 optical scan machines were replaced on Monday as a result of problems with the machines rejecting ballots.

"We're looking at everything," said Holland, who said the humidity, the paper or the machine may have been factors.

Problems with the machines occurred throughout Duval County, including Gateway mall, Webb Wesconnett, Mandarin, Highlands, Regency Square and Bradham-Brooks Northwest libraries, according to officials.

Tia Sewell-Crumpler, who voted at one of the problematic sites - Highlands library - felt uncomfortable her ballot wasn't scanned.

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