What about 'hanging chads', 'butterfly ballots', long lines and lost ballots?
Butterfly ballots, you know, I hadn't even heard of that before Florida. We test all our equipment before. In California we used punch cards and never had the problem that Florida had. So, I think it's between different areas it's different. Obviously, we check every machine before we ever sent it out to a polling place. There were no backup chads in the machine. Apparently, Florida didn't do that, so they had allot of little holes in their machines, little chads where clogging some of the machines and stuff like that. If a machine doesn't work, and that happens all the time, equipment doesn't work sometimes. Just take it out of use. We always give people extra voting machines, extra pens. We've had polling places where, for some reason, the polling place was locked when the election was suppose to start. We set up the polling place on a car hood outside the polling place. People should be allowed to vote even if the equipment isn't working. If they run out of ballots, no problem, just give them provisional ballots. Let them vote, you known, anyway. We had people vote on pieces of paper for their candidates. They counted. Of course, we take great, great, great strides to make sure each polling place has enough ballots. And there are emergency numbers and precinct people that are driving around with extra equipment in case there's an equipment problem. The equipment works. What happens is, sometimes we have personnel problems at the polling places. But, you know, by and large, it's amazing how well this -- you know those are volunteers, minimal pay, long hours, they got to be there 6 o'clock in the morning and they're there until 10 o'clock at night. They've got to be, have the day off from work. So allot of them are senior citizens, older people, retired people. It's amazing how the system works.
