12 reports

• 6 reports about No Voting Issue
• 4 reports about Other
• 1 reports about Location Issue
• 1 reports about Identification Issue

32303: No Voting Issue

I was glad for early voting, and also that during early voting you could vote anywhere regardless of precinct. It made my life easier!!!! Read More »

33025: No Voting Issue

I arrived at the poling station at 6:30 and was out by 7:30. The doors opened here at 7:00 and after a few minutes, it was over. Not bad at all Read More »

33306: Location Issue

There was one scanner with a long line of voters. The machine broke and voters left without voting, after having filled out the ballot. The officials opened the machine and removed all the ballots in view of voters, with what appeared to be another voter helping repair the machine. Many voters took photos and videos of the outbursts and malfunction., with concern that the ballots would be accurately counted. Read More »

33021: Other

Voting required 1.5 hours of waiting in the main line followed by waiting in 4 subsequent mini-lines once I entered "the room". It was the most bizarre process I have ever seen or heard to vote for the President (but of course, it's Florida) Read More »

32503: No Voting Issue

I brought my 2 year old daughter to witness this historic election. There was no line at 8:30 a.m. Read More »

33615: No Voting Issue

My husband and I voted in the afternoon on the first day of early voting in Florida. We waited in line about a half hour. The poll workers said that the line had been about the same all day. Read More »

33154: Other

no receipts printed. watched a poll worker help the old lady beside me drop a blank ballot. directions given are unclear and scattered. Read More »

33781: Other

My wife and I both voted by absentee on 27 October. Glad we did as I could lines throughout the remaining days of the week that stretched around the corner. Absentee gave us the time to review the candidates and make our choice. Read More »

32501: Other

Early voting at the Supervisor/Elect. Office. Showed d/l, marked paper ballot in portable booth. It took 15 min. at most due to reviewing Fla. const. amends. on ballot. Plain English should be required for const. amend. summaries. Read More »

33323: Identification Issue

There is only one voter id machine that processed 12 people an hour, the precinct does 1200 people on average. The lines are already long, do the math...This is happening in several places in Broward County and affecting hundreds if not thousands of voters. Read More »

33157: No Voting Issue

Voted early, took almost 3 hours, but I enjoyed it and felt part of something important. My fellow voters represented a diversity of views and discussed them with respect and without animosity. A very different experience from 2000 and 2004. Thank goodness Bush is gone!!!!!! Read More »

34104: No Voting Issue

Easy, I am glad I waited until voting day rahter than the early voting at limited places and long lines. Read More »

27 Electoral Votes

Polling Hours: 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

2008 Registered Voters: 11,247,634 as of 11/03 (Florida Division of Elections)

Change from 2004: +20%

Election Day Registration: No

Post-Election Manual Audits: Yes

ID Requirements: Photo ID require of all voters, those without ID can cast provisional ballots

Provisional Voting: Eligible for verification if cast in correct precinct

Voting System: Optical scan and DRE

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Florida Voters Endure Long Lines

State: Florida

Florida Democrats complained to the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office today about 3 1/2 hour long lines to vote at the University of Central Florida arena. The O.C. elections supervisor sent four additional staff members to the arena which dramatically shortened the lines. Despite the long wait, voters remained composed. (Orlando Sentinel Read More »

Missing Ballots Prompts Concern in Fla.

State: Florida

Clerks in at least three precincts in Tampa-St. Petersburg failed to hand out the second page of ballots, leaving voters unable to vote on all the measures. Elections officials there say one clerk has already been replaced, and are working to figure out what to do with the other two sites. Similar problems were reported in Palm Beach County, where some machines at the 450 polling locations were not accepting ballots because voters are not filling out the second page. (Tampa Tribune, AP) Read More »

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