The Legislature, with the support of Gov. Charlie Crist, last year forced counties like Pasco and Pinellas to scrap the touch-screen voting equipment they had just spent millions purchasing. Touch-screen voting was supposed to solve problems associated with punch-card balloting, which was supposedly the cause of the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential voting controversy in Florida. ...more

February 12, 2008

A House task force voted Friday to end an investigation into a disputed 2006 Florida congressional election after extensive testing showed that touch-screen voting machines likely worked properly. ...more

February 9, 2008

Touch-screen voting machines likely performed properly and were not to blame for the large number of undervotes in the District 13 congressional election in 2006, federal investigators said in a draft report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. ...more

February 7, 2008

A U.S. economic aid program to keep Russian scientists from selling weapons information to terrorists apparently funneled much of the money to scientists who never claimed to have a background in nuclear, chemical or biological programs, a congressional report said Friday. ...more

January 12, 2008

Millions of $40 government coupons become available today to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting. ...more

December 31, 2007

Like father, like son. That was my immediate reaction to a new federal study that said more than one out of three of today's 17-year-olds won't have any money saved up once they hit retirement age in the 2050s and beyond. ...more

December 30, 2007

Government auditors said they found nearly $90 million in potentially questionable payments from the Medicare program to contractors helping enact the prescription drug benefit for the elderly and disabled. ...more

December 21, 2007

U.S. sanctions against Cuba are more restrictive than those imposed on any other country, including Iran and North Korea, and their rigorous enforcement risks diverting government attention from higher-priority counterterrorism tasks, a new government audit has found. ...more

December 20, 2007

Air travelers face a high risk of a catastrophic collision on a U.S. airport runway because of faltering federal leadership, malfunctioning technology and overworked air traffic controllers, congressional investigators said Wednesday. ...more

December 6, 2007

Democrat Christine Jennings has withdrawn a lawsuit over her 369-vote loss in a 2006 congressional race because a federal investigation will meet the same goals as the court case, her lawyers said. ...more

November 29, 2007