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Okay, I'll give 'em this: what we have here is a good summary of events. But there is virtually not one single new thing (exception noted below) in this piece which has not been covered, extensively, in detail, and with supporting documentation, in blogs (most emphatically including this one; we've been what some might call obsessive on the issue) for months now.

(via NYT (I bet you already guessed that!))

Three years after Gov. Jeb Bush announced a new voting system that he called "a model for the rest of the nation," Florida is grappling with some of the same problems that threw the 2000 presidential election into chaos, as well as new ones that critics say could cause even more confusion this November.

In fairness (no snickering there!), I will admit there was a mention of one detail I at least had not heard before:

The election reform coalition and other groups have also expressed concerns about a new policy on provisional ballots, used by Floridians if poll workers cannot verify their registration on the spot. The Legislature decided that provisional ballots cast outside a voter's home precinct can be thrown out, which voting-rights groups call unfair.

And just to get snarky again, this is the LAST paragraph of a two-page article. Yo! It's called burying the lead, dimwit NYT editors. Disputes about "home precincts" cause, in my experience, something like 99.9 percent of the problems which would cause provisional ballots to be called for. An honorable system would allow the vote to be cast, the correct precinct to be determined at the courthouse on the basis of the voter's ID, and the vote counted there. But this is Florida we're talking about, so the word "honorable" is hardly applicable.