My husband went to vote today. He put in his selections, then he checked to see if they were right. He had voted dem. but it came back rep.he called the voter personel told him i didn't vote this ,so he did it again .Well, he asked the voter personel why this happined he said he didn't know .BUT HE SAID TO MY HUSBAND IT'S A GOOD THING YOU CHECKED. ALOT OF PEOPLE DON'T CHECK WHEN THEY SEE THE RED LIGHT THEY JUST THINK THEY VOTEING WAS CORRECT.

Respectfully yours, Ronald Johnson

I feel this is something you should know about. The voting precinct that I am supposed to use was not opened at 7:00am today. I arrived on my way to work at 7:15am and they were still closed. That precinct was at the Blanchard Park YMCA off of Dean Rd, near Colonial. A lot of people rely on this and only have time to vote in the morning. I am now hoping that I get home in time to be able to vote.

In Daytona Beach, precinct 640, I arrived to vote around 9:30. At that point this did not have the touch screen voting machine operational. While filling in my ballot a machine company rep came in as there was a problem reported. This precinct did not call directly. They reported to the technician they had no one trained to operate or assist with the touch screen system so they were just using it. He was trying to give one of the volunteers a crash course in its operation. However he did tell them where they had the machine placed was against voting regulations concerning voter access and would have to be taken apart moved and reassembled. Just thought you would like to know.

Best regards,

Kevin Aiken

It is 10:45am on 11/7/06. i just left my voting precinct (507 Calvary Towers). as i left, i saw that i was the 585th voter of the day. the place was packed with people, some standing in line waiting on an open election booth. an election worker told me that they had not seen this kind of turnout for voting in many years, especially for a mid-term election.

Michael in Winter Park

I started this day searching for my local polling place online. The Osceola County DoE website was VERY confusing to start with and to end with. It continuously told me that my address didn't exist. So I got on the phone and called around to a few friends and found that I was to vote at St Johns Church in Kissimmee (Columbia Ave and John Young Pky). After arriving at the polling place, I handed the lady my FL drivers license and she swiped it into the machine. Asked me to verify my address and sign a little electronic box. She handed me a printout and pointed to a man standing in the center of the room looking toward another table. I looked back at her and asked her what it was she was telling me to do. She said something to do with "get behind him" in very broken English. I repeated this to which she smiled large and said "Si, Si!" I got behind the man and started waiting. There was about three people in the room out of fifteen who didn't work there. I was one of the three. After a few commands were blurted out in Spanish to assorted people, someone finally said to the man in front of me to step up to the table. He did and was promptly told that he was in the wrong location and that if he could wait a few minuets they would try to find the location he was supposed to be at. After about ten minuets it was my turn. I handed my receipt to the lady and she smiled and told me that I was ineligible to vote. Now, I did just move back here from being in the Army for the last ten years but I have voted in other states. When I registered to vote at the same time I renewed my FL drivers license I did not know that there would be a problem in the future. I didn't' think I would be called ineligible to vote by someone who can't even say ineligible after coming "home" from ten years in the Army. After another ten minute wait to "figure out what the problem is" I was handed a ballot and directed to a table. I voted but am not too confident that it will be counted. My ten years in the Army was spent so as to preserve the right for every American to vote. My confidence has never been lower in my home town government. All of the DoE personnel seemed to be clueless as to what they were doing. There was two of the ten personnel that were speaking English which made me very uncomfortable. I do not think it is proper for government employees to be speaking any other language unless necessary than English. I feel uncomfortable that nobody seemed to understand the magnitude of what they were doing there. It is no wonder FL has so many problems with elections if every other polling place is similar to this one. It is no wonder so few people come out to vote if other polling places are similar to this one. I am a proud American, a proud veteran and a proud Floridian, but today I am not proud of Florida or Osceola County.

Just wanted to let you know that at 9:30 this morning we went to our polling place in Palm Bay, at the Fire house on San Filippo and I was given TWO ballots. I voted and then turned in the extra ballot they gave me to the guy at the door. Wonder how many got TWO ballots and USED them!! My wife reported it to the clerk at that precinct and she just said "oh they are sticking" Not a good thing after all thats happened in the past. We called Titusville and the woman we spoke to said she'd report it. Nobody seemed too concerned except us!