ORLANDO, Fla. -- A few problems cropped up in Central Florida Tuesday but voters said they were minor compared to the past two statewide elections, according to Local 6 News.

Computer problems briefly knocked out ballot scanners at three Central Florida precincts: one each in Brevard, Orange and Seminole counties.

Local 6 News reported that the scanners were not working at the Gotha Precinct 101 in Orange County, Fla.

Voters were putting their ballots in a box to be hand-counted until the machines were repaired, according to the report.

In Winter Park, precinct doors remained closed at a recreation center until 7:20 a.m. Once they opened, voters said they had trouble feeding the optical scan ballots through machines, and English-speaking voters said they were handed Spanish-language ballots.

The scanners also were not working at Port St. John Precinct 159 in Brevard County or Precinct 116 in Seminole County at the St. Albins Church on state Road 426, according to reports.

Elsewhere, touch-screen machines, which replaced punch-card machines in 15 counties, were misprogrammed at a South Miami precinct, but Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver said no one was turned away.

Also, a problem with ballots at a polling location in Osceola County, Fla., Tuesday may have caused votes to be rejected, according to Local 6 News.

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Local 6 News reported that an unknown number of ballots at a Precinct 11 polling place reportedly did not contain Congressional District 15.

Election workers switched out the ballots and put the errorneous ballots into an emergency compartment per Florida law, Local 6 News reported. However, people who voted before the switch was made apparently had their ballot rejected.

The Supervisors of Elections office in Osceola County, Fla., is urging anyone who voted at at the Merry "D" campground early Tuesday morning to go back to the polls before 7 p.m. tonight.

It is not known how may ballots may have been rejected.

The canvassing board will look over the rejected ballots and count them, Local 6 News reported.

Former Attorney General Janet Reno, who lost the Democratic primary for governor, waited with 40 others to vote in suburban Miami and quickly moved through the line, in contrast to being turned away Sept. 10 when machines weren't ready.

"It was smooth," said Reno, who campaigned in recent weeks for Democratic candidate Bill McBride in his bid to unseat Gov. Jeb Bush. "They were prepared for me this time."

An official said only two Broward precincts opened late and all were running by 7:03 a.m. Voters said a precinct at a performing arts center in Hollywood opened five minutes late, but poll worker Bob Brown denied it.

A 144-line phone center set up to handle emergency calls from Broward poll workers was jammed in the first hour of voting.

Paralegal Lori Nathan, who didn't vote in September, got a run-around trying to vote in the Broward suburb of Davie. Her voter card listed a middle school as her precinct, but there was no voting there. A lawn worker sent her and others to a community college, which had no polls. She eventually found out she was assigned to vote at Town Hall.

"I think it prevents people from voting,'' she said. "I'm annoyed but I'm here and I'm voting. It's a good thing I didn't have my kids today or I'd be mad.''

In the Broward suburb of Miramar, about 150 people lined up at opening time at a residential clubhouse hosting two precincts, but the crowd cleared quickly.

Johnalee Richardson, a receptionist in the central Florida community of Sanford, said: "There was lots of stuff on the ballot. That was the hardest.''

Two years ago, disputed recounts in Florida held up the presidential election of George W. Bush for five weeks. Problems with new touchscreen machines in September delayed the McBride-Reno results for a week.

In the time since, Miami-Dade and Broward election officials hastily worked to increase poll worker training and add hundreds of workers to troubleshoot the new machines. The two counties account for nearly 2 million of 9.3 million registered voters statewide.

Based on past mistakes, election monitors filtered across the state from the Justice Department and independent groups, including the Washington-based Center for Democracy, which normally observes Third-World voting.

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