Florida voting machines changing votes

Here in Florida we are able to take advantage of early voting. So tomorrow I'll be heading to the local library and will carefully cast my votes. I'll report back on how it went. I'm rather distrustful of the voting machines, since there is NO paper trail, and therefore no way to do a recount. All we can do is trust that the machines will tally votes correctly and that the totals from the individual machines are properly combined.

Well, I'm a computer programmer, so I know that it is easy to write programs with errors. It is easy to also write programs with intentional 'errors'. It is a much more involved task to write quality programs and to then design and execute detailed test plans to ensure that the programming operates as it should.

An article from Saturday's Miami Herald describes multiple instances during our current early voting cycle in which voters saw their votes for Democrats displayed as votes for Republicans on the confirmation screen.

When you vote:

1. Review your ballot carefully before removing your voting card
2. If ANY of your candidate selections are incorrect when reviewing, inform a poll worker immediately.
3. Go back and attempt to correct your selection. If you still are unable to make your selections, ask for the poll site supervisor to shut down the machine, and write down the machine number, the poll site supervisor name, and ask for another voting machine to made available.
4. Report all irregularities to your local political party (for me, here in Hillsborough County in Florida, that is the Democratic Party (813-876-1945)

It's a very scary time when we cannot trust our elections.