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M: This was on Election Day. We could not have done that after the polls closed,
 but he came to us and he had the proper identification and we got on the phone
 to the poll workers in his precinct and they agreed with him 100 percent. So, we
 voted unanimously to allow him to vote and we said, never mind going back to
 your precinct, we're going to allow you to cast your ballot right here, and we
 walked him over to one of the optical scanners. One of us stayed there with him
 and we said, go ahead an mark your ballot, and then we'll let you put it in the
 scanner.

P: What is your view on provisional ballots?

M: Well, that's one of the suggestions that I made afterwards. I talked with Deanie
 Lowe after the election and she said, well the legislature wants to revisit this
 matter. I had a telephone conference with the state representative who was
 spearheading this. His name escapes me right now, it's an unusual name, but I
 said, you know, it would be nice to have a provisional ballot that comes to the
 canvassing board to determine whether that voter was or was not properly
 registered as of Election Day, or as of the cut-off date. That would eliminate a lot
 of unhappy people saying that they were not allowed to vote. Let them go ahead
 and cast a provisional ballot and let that ballot be brought to the canvassing
 board, and the canvassing board will decide, based on the evidence presented to
 it, whether that ballot should be allowed or not.

P: Did you have any problems with the felon list that was sent to all of the elections
 supervisors, as it turned out that the list was flawed?

M: Not that I can recall. I have no recollection of that, and I think I would have if
 we'd had to address that.

P: Should felons be allowed to vote?

M: I don't know. I understand both sides of the argument, but there are convicted
 murderers who are paroled after twenty-five years. I mean, I understand the
 argument against allowing them to vote, but I can also understand the arguments
 of, look, he's paid his debt to society. You know, he's either maxed out on his
 sentence or he served his time and he's been paroled out and the parole is up,
 he ought to be allowed to vote. I understand both sides, but I don't have a really
 strong opinion on that.

P: Did you get a lot of complaints from the Republicans in Volusia County? In Palm
 Beach they were saying that people were eating chads, they claimed it was
 chaotic, that there were all kinds of problems, and that they were stapling chads
 to the back of ballots. Did you get any kind of complaints like that here?
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