JACKSONVILLE, Florida - October 20, 2008 - People lined up
to be among the first to vote at several early voting sites around Jacksonville
Monday morning had an extra long wait and some left frustrated as machines at
several locations refused to record the ballots.
The Duval County elections office confirmed problems with voting machines at the Gateway Shopping Center and libraries on Edgewood Avenue, at Regency Square and Wesconnett. Channel 4 has heard from voters experiencing problems at other polling places, as well.
Voters were not the only ones frustrated. Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said his staff had to replace optical scanners at four sites and they were investigating reports of problems at other sites.
"The reader said the ballot is too long. However, in looking at that, we measured that, there's not a problem," Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said. "It doesn't stop the voters from voting, because we can put them in an emergency bin and then read them tonight when we close it, but obviously it's frustrating when we bought new equipment for this and we are having some problems that didn't show up at all during testing."