election results will be certified and governor scott, senator-elect scott will be headed to washington. neil: we shall see. thank you for taking the time. appreciate it. thank you, neil, appreciate it. neil: let s get a few of in frommed 50,000, and he was head of gore s election team it must seem like deja vu. the similarity in 2000 there was a ballot design error in two different counties n palm beach county the so-called butterfly ballot and duval, jacksonville, the so-called caterpillar ballot and each were confusing and cost al gore votes. and you have that in broward county, it caused people not to vote in the u.s. senate race and didn t see the race on the ballot given it s location. the reason we know that s the
by hand, they didn t register because most of the voters left that race blank. maybe these democrats didn t vote for rick scott because he s a republican. maybe they didn t vote for bill nelson because he s bill nelson. who knows? that s the fact of the matter here. it puts nelson in an impossible position. there is chatter and speculation. some democrats said they couldn t see the race on the ballot because it had been tucked in the lower left and perhaps the poor ballot design by broward county. even so, that s tough luck for nelson. there s history for that too. in palm beach county when it designed the butterfly ballot when it tricked democrats into voting for pat buchanan. either way, it doesn t matter because once it s all said and done, it ll be certified on tuesday. scott is going to washington.
issues? really? that s embarrassing. it s even more embarrassing because this is not the first time that they ve dealt with voting machine problems. remember this? 18 years ago palm beach county was home to the controversial butterfly ballot at the heart of the 2000 recount. many voters say they may have voted for the wrong candidate because they were confused. palm beach was also one of the counties where recounts were conducted using punch card ballots. remember officials looking at partially punched ballots or there were dimpled chads or hanging chads. remember that? why are there still issues? and palm beach county is not alone. hillsborough county is blaming two power outages and lost a voting machine for a drop in votes counted. that s why they decide to stick with the initial numbers. this is unacceptable. get some new machines. ones that work. figure it out. crucial florida counties not
mechanical issues, really? that s embarrassing. it s even more embarrassing because this is not the first time that they have dealt with voting machine problems. remember this, 18 years ago, palm beach county was home to the controversial butterfly ballot at the heart of the 2000 recount. many voters said that they may have voted for the wrong candidate because they were confused. palm beach was also one of the counties where recounts were conducted using punch card ballots. remember officials looking at partially punched ballots where they were dimple chads or hanging chads? were are there still issues? palm beach county is not alone. hillsboro county is blaming two outages and lost a voting machine for a drop in votes counted. that s why they decided to stick with the initial numbers. this is unacceptable. get some new machines, ones that work. figure it out.
country and yeah, you re right, i mean, you are, but it s also deeply serious, and people are upset about it. 18 years ago, the butterfly ballot, right, the heart of the 2000 recount. that, of course, palm beach county. people were confused. so, the big question here is, is this really going to be fixed? you re getting new machines in and it s never going to happen again. are we going to be looking at 2020 where all of a sudden when you have one of the most contentious elections in american history and florida s going to be at the center of it and you guys might not have it together? the legislature needs to fund new machines for palm beach county, without a doubt, because the current machines not being able to do a recount for more than one race at a time is so unacceptable. these are antiquated machines so hopefully that will help for 2020. also, i would hope that we could make sure that the delays are eliminated, the transparency is increased, but i can say this as the state attor