Here is what I wrote about ten days after the fiasco of an election we had here in sarasota:
I think it is clear to anyone with some involvement in the process here in Sarasota over the past three weeks, that there were serious obstacles preventing the registration of votes for the district 13 election in Sarasota, and furthermore, these obstacles were mostly in the way of votes for Christine Jennings. I have yet to hear a single person state they had a problem registering a vote for Vern Buchanan, with the exception of people who simply were not presented with the screen for the district 13 race. I have heard first person reports from more than 40 people who had difficulty voting for Christine Jennings.
This is perhaps the clearest and most well documented case of a defective election in a long time. (more…)