Shortly after the start of early voting on October 18, irregularities were reported in Palm Beach, Broward, and Orange Counties.*

... In Orange County, the computers went down for about 10 minutes shortly after voting began, said Margaret Dunn, the senior deputy elections supervisor. She said she did not know what caused the problem, but speculated a faulty Internet connection may have been to blame.

In Broward County, several of the 14 sites had trouble linking the laptop computers at polling stations with the supervisor's office, said Jenny Nash, a spokeswoman at the Secretary of State Glenda Hood's office. The computers are used to confirm voter eligibility. Workers used paper lists and called the supervisor's office in Fort Lauderdale to verify eligibility, Nash said.