The question of who was U.S. President James Garfield's opponent in the presidential election of 1880 is not the most pressing for most people - unless you are Dunedin City Manager Robert "Rob" DiSpirito or Dunedin Historical Museum Executive Director Vincent "Vinnie" Luisi. ...more

February 28, 2009

Yet another new voting system for Hillsborough County? That's a possibility as the county tries to determine what role the newly purchased optical-scan voting machines - and the system's owner, Premier Election Solutions - played in Tuesday's election fiasco. ...more

November 8, 2008

From the White House and Congress to the East Lake Tarpon Special Fire Control District and the Pasco Mosquito Control District. The votes that will be cast Nov. 4 in those races and the all the ones in between should be counted. If any aren't, however, in most cases the fault will lie with voters, not the equipment being used or the sinister forces some people devoutly believe "stole" recent elections. So be careful when voting with optical scanning voting equipment this Tuesday. ...more

November 1, 2008

We'll take Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson at his word that the problem experienced posting vote tallies there Tuesday night wasn't the fault of the county's still-new optical-scanning voting system. In Pasco and Pinellas, which like Hillsborough and other Florida counties were forced to switch to optical scanning by the Legislatures, things also went fairly well. ...more

August 30, 2008

NEW YORK - Just as Americans grow more reliant on credit cards to help pay monthly bills, they're being hit with a one-two punch: Card companies are reducing borrowing limits for tens of thousands of consumers, which then can lead to lower credit scores. ...more

June 29, 2008

Just as Americans grow more reliant on credit cards to help pay monthly bills, they're being hit with a one-two punch: Card companies are reducing borrowing limits for tens of thousands of consumers, and that can lead to lower credit scores. ...more

June 28, 2008

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

Pasco County's optical-scanning voting equipment has arrived. ...more

October 3, 2007