Fortunately, the lines were slightly shorter and the problems were limited to two of Duval County's 15 early voting sites: the Highlands Library on Dunn Avenue and the Pablo Creek Library on Beach Boulevard.
 
But as the day progressed, the lines moved quicker and election officials think they figured out why the vote scanners were rejecting ballots.
Monday, when seven different optical ballot scanning machines refused to read at least 1,000 ballots Monday at several polling places, Duval County Supervisor Jerry Holland said the machines indicated the ballots physically too long or were affected by high humidity.
 
By midday Tuesday, Holland and his staff learned the real problem was with the ballot printers. Because voters from any precinct can vote at any early voting site, each ballot is printed individually.
 
"If the paper is not loaded properly, it can be skewed just enough that the timing marks on the side will produce a ballot that will not be read," Holland said. "Due to the tolerance of the machines, some machines may accept it and some may not."
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