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Article: Florida Democratic Party sues state over primary ballots.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 5, 2002
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ Two years after the butterfly ballot and faulty voting machines kept the world waiting to learn who would become the next president, Florida has produced a ballot that is once again creating mayhem.
The Florida Democratic Party on Monday sued the state. Secretary of State Jim Smith, in his post for less than a day, started emergency procedures to redo the ballots for the primary election Sept. 10. And county elections officials got a last-minute notice that they will have to change their absentee ballot mailings, which go out this week.
At issue is the state's newly written language for gubernatorial primary ballots, which this year ...