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November 02, 2004
Louisiana | Eye-witness Blogging on Machine Problems

From the last update here.

Read the account here. The short version is that our blogger says he showed up right when the precinct opened, and the machines were broken and did not get fixed for a couple of hours. In my polling place, there were three machines, but in some areas there is only one, so a broken machine doesn’t just mean long lines, it means no votes.

I didn’t ever get as far east as Louisiana Pkwy, but in the poor black areas I saw the poll workers denied any machine problems. Just don’t take the preceding as any kind of denial that some machines were broken.



Posted by Sobek at November 2, 2004 07:37 PM | TrackBack
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