Florida 13 Recount Fund

ActBlue has started a District 13 recount fund to help Christine Jennings finance the recount.

The voting machine testing story gets weirder. Florida won't actually test the machines used in the District 13 race. They are testing unused machines. That's like taking a Porshe to the garage to find out what's wrong with a Pinto.

"Testing unused machines -- rather than testing the machines that have actually exhibited the troubling symptoms -- will only further undermine public confidence in our electoral system generally and in the state's audit of this election in particular," Mark Herron said in a letter to the state's lawyers.

The state will test ten of the used machines on December 1. What the first time is suppose to prove is something I'm not sure of. Besides, making the state look like they're doing something. This all would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

Update: Paul Krugman weighs in on the District 13 controversy.

I've been shocked at how little national attention the mess in Sarasota has received. Here we have as clear a demonstration as we're ever likely to see that warnings from computer scientists about the dangers of paperless electronic voting are valid - and most Americans probably haven't even heard about it.

As far as I can tell, the reason Florida-13 hasn't become a major national story is that neither control of Congress nor control of the White House is on the line. But do we have to wait for a constitutional crisis to realize that we're in danger of becoming a digital-age banana republic?