Florida sued over ballot recount rules

Voting rights groups sued Florida election administrators on Wednesday to overturn a rule that prohibits manual recounting of ballots cast with touch-screen machines, a lawsuit with echoes of the state's disputed 2000 presidential election voting.  The plaintiffs have called the rule "illogical" and say the rule violates a Florida law that requires manual recounts of certain ballots if the margin in an election is less than 0.25 percent of the votes cast.  [more]