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'I Don't Know If Our Votes Will Be Counted,' Woman Says

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By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

2:20 p.m.: Roberta McClenin is dubious.

"I don't know if our votes will be counted," says McClenin, 66, who is retired.

McClenin says that when she arrived at Precinct 677, at the Fowler Avenue Baptist Church in Temple Terrace, the optical scanners were only working intermittently.

"So workers opened up a hole in the machine and stuck the ballots in a well in the machine to be counted later."

The line of people waiting to vote face similar woes, McClenin said.

"There were about 25 people in front of me and about 25 people behind me. Anyone voting from now on will be affected."

Any problems, she says from first-hand experience, are isolated.

"I dropped off another lady at a different polling place, down the street at the United Church of Christ," McClenin said. "There were no problems. She was in and out in five minutes."

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