"Two Florida counties have been ordered to give back federal money
they received to provide disabled-accessible voting machines in each
precinct because they didn't get the machines in time. Leon County,
which includes Tallahassee, and rural Union County in north-central
Florida, were notified Friday by the state Division of Elections that
they must return the money.  For Leon County, it means the loss of
$564,421; Union County has been ordered to return just under $50,000.
Secretary of State Sue Cobb told both counties in a letter Friday,
however, that even though they may be still trying to get the
machines to comply with the law, the money still must be returned
because they didn't meet a Jan. 1 deadline for having them."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-
votingmachines006feb04,0,553328.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state
You may recall that Leon County was the one that demonstrated the
Diebold hack and decided to stop using Diebold. Subsequently ES&S
reneged on an agreement to sell them voting machines leaving them in
a quandray. It's a remarkable coincidence that of all counties they
should be singled out for this.
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