Drug-Testing Scheme Regarding "Jobless Benefits Drug Test Proposed," Metro, March 17: ...more

March 19, 2009

Yet another new voting system for Hillsborough County? That's a possibility as the county tries to determine what role the newly purchased optical-scan voting machines - and the system's owner, Premier Election Solutions - played in Tuesday's election fiasco. ...more

November 8, 2008

3:15 p.m.: After what happened in the 2000 presidential election, Carmen Arenas was leaving nothing to chance. ...more

November 4, 2008

2:06 p.m.:An optical scanner had to be replaced soon after polls opened at the Wellswood Baptist Church in Tampa, according to a poll worker. ...more

November 4, 2008

11:25 a.m.: It doesn't pay to be an "S" at precinct 359 in Tampa Palms. As I stand in line waiting for my turn to vote, I watch people whose last names begin with M, H and J dash past me. ...more

November 4, 2008

County voters continued to file in at the Highlands County Government Center Monday, as the Highlands County Supervisor of Elections office released a six-day total of 10,118 early voters. ...more

October 28, 2008

HUNTER'S GREEN - The New Tampa Community Council will host a demonstration of the new optical scanner voting machines Thursday. ...more

July 30, 2008

I came away from an election-poll-workers' training session the other day shaking my head in wonderment. Just as I felt that the registered voters of Hillsborough County, after a few elections, were becoming adjusted to using the touch-screen voting machines, we have taken a giant step backward for mankind by going to paper ballots. ...more

July 18, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- Several hundred county poll workers got a sneak peek today, Wednesday, at the optical scanner voting machines Pasco voters will use during the Aug. 26 primary. ...more

June 11, 2008

Perhaps this is the last time Wayne Poston and Bill Evers will share the same political stage, but the curtain has not yet fallen. ...more

November 29, 2007