Word: reno
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...touch-screen voting machines, part of a $30 million upgrade undertaken after Florida's 2000 presidential recount debacle. Because of the voting fiasco, it took all of last week for state officials to confirm that Tampa attorney Bill McBride had narrowly, and stunningly, upset former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in the Democratic contest to face Governor Jeb Bush. The two counties have until this week to revise their results, but a different outcome is unlikely...
...surprise; few Americans had imagined that an election could be held hostage by such obvious mistakes. That these widespread errors and stunning displays of incompetence were repeated in Florida’s 2002 democratic gubernatorial primary—finally conceded on Tuesday evening by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno after a week of recounts—is nothing less than mind-boggling. It’s one thing to fail to anticipate a problem; it is quite another to be aware of a flawed system and replace it with something that might even be worse...
Already we’ve seen that reform is gruelingly slow. In Florida last week, the Democratic primary election was so close that former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno still has not conceded the election, although final vote recounts are due today. In a near replay of 2000, Miami-Dade and Broward counties saw major problems in counting ballots, and the margin was only about 5,000 votes in 1.3 million. This happened after polls were kept open an additional two hours because of massive lines, and many polling places were inoperative or malfunctioning for part of the day. There...
...Dalai Lama fled to India. U.S. Florida Follies Nearly two years after Florida's hanging chads helped jinx the U.S. presidential election, the state's polling system was again at the center of controversy after technical problems marred a primary election. Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno refused to rule out a legal challenge to the results. Unofficial tallies showed that Reno, who wants to be the Democratic candidate to fight Florida's Republican Governor Jeb Bush in November, trailed newcomer Bill McBride by less than 1% of the vote. Following the 2000 fiasco, Florida spent $32 million...
After five minutes of clapping and wind-up-toy arm swings, Reno has left the stage to give a press conference upstairs. She faces one of the largest press gatherings, by far, of her campaign. "At some point," Reno says, "the beat became so pronounced it made you dance." The woman naturally talks in James Brown lyrics...