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Election official may face congressional inquiry.

SARASOTA - Four months later, the controversy over Vern Buchanan's razor thin congressional win in the 13th District is not going away.

We're only learning now that elections supervisor Kathy Dent received a warning memo before the election from the voting machine makers about potentially sticky buttons, but didn't tell anyone outside her office.

"We discussed it with the staff," said elections supervisor Kathy Dent.

Dent felt the best solution was to display posters telling voters about being careful about their selections and checking the review screens.

Only problem with displaying the warning posters is that they did not display them. No posters were sent out to any of the polling places for the election.

As for Dent, this recent controversy has her thinking long and hard about running for re-election next year.

"I'm weighing my options. It's becoming a job now," Dent said.

Wait a minute, it's becoming a job now? You mean, being the supervisor of elections wasn't really a job? What was it Kathy? A place for you to just slack off and collect a paycheck?
The voters deserved to know there was a problem with the voting machines. The posters were never displayed.
And here's an interesting piece of news about those machines;

In a letter dated August 15th, ES&S, the company that manufactures the voting machines, warned the supervisor's office of an "issue" with the voting machines. The letter indicated that its voting machines, deployed all across the country, were showing "slow response times" and required a patch in order to correct the problem. But ES&S never sent the patch, and Kathy Dent never asked for it.

So now we see that she really wasn't doing her job. Hell, she didn't consider it a job anyway.

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