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    Filed at 6:45 am under by dcobranchi

    I’m still famous. 🙂 Third day in the paper:

    Merit: For early voters, who turned out by the thousands to cast their ballots on Thursday, the first day of the state’s “one-stop” voting. About 3,000 Cumberland County residents voted Thursday. (The first voter, Daryl Cobranchi, a member of the Observer’s Community Advisory Board, showed up at 3:30 a.m. to claim his place in line.)

    Obama’s in town tomorrow. An acquaintance suggested that I have to get in line early again. I don’t think so. It took me two days to recover from Thursday’s adventure.

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    3 Responses to “THERE’S A NEW KID IN TOWN”


    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    October 18th, 2008
    at 1:26 pm

    To keep youre streak going another few days, why not claim you’re a plumber too?

    Comment by
    Anne
    October 20th, 2008
    at 4:12 pm

    I bet you’re glad you didn’t go:

    fayobs...=30794

    OTOH, maybe not? 🙂 Hey, it would have been another chance to get into the paper!

    Comment by
    JJ Ross
    October 20th, 2008
    at 6:24 pm

    Why did I listen to Daryl??
    Guess where Favorite Daughter and I voted today, sigh . . .

    October 20, 2008
    Ballots not being recorded at two Leon County polling places
    By Angeline J. Taylor
    Democrat Staff Writer

    Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho has reported that ballots at the Woodville and Northeast branches are not being read properly. The problem, he said, rests with a new machine that has been purchased for polling sites throughout the state.

    The machine, deemed the OSX, has what Sancho called a sensitivity problem.

    “Certain ballots are being rejected across the state,” he said. “The machine is too sensitive for differing lengths.”

    If the machine reads the ballot card as too long, the OSX machine will simply not read the card.

    “This is not a Leon County problem. This is a state problem,” Sancho said.
    Ion said the machines are being used only at those sites.

    The plan is to allow for voting for the remainder of the day. Once these two polling stations close at 6 p.m., the OSX machines will be replaced with optical scanners.

    Sancho said that each person that has voted today is welcome to come back after 6 p.m. to make sure that their vote counts. He said all of the ballots will be taken out of the ballot box and run through the optical scanners.

    “The issue is not one that would cause Leon County voters to be concerned,” he said.

    Sancho said there are representatives from the both the Republican and Democratic parties on hand to review the problem.