Watchdog group urges Florida voting system audit
A Miami-Dade elections watchdog organization is traveling to the state capital today to turn up the heat on the governor: The group wants him to order a statewide audit of voting systems to check if the machines will work on Election Day. The Miami-Dade Elections Reform Coalition will ask Gov. Jeb Bush to order the Legislature to earmark money for an audit of both the touch-screen and optical-scan voting systems before the Aug. 31 election.The coalition, which will be joined in the announcement by the League of Women Voters and the ACLU of Florida, also wants a random audit of some optical-scan machines. [more]