Howard Goodman: A Palm Beach Post investigation reveals that Palm Beach County’s current high-tech voting equipment cannot be fully trusted to perform the most basic tasks: count votes correctly and keep them secure.

Howard Goodman: The city of Tampa will be able to ban clubs and spears during the Republican National Convention. But not guns.

Howard Goodman: To save $1.4 million, the University of Florida is eliminating its computer science department. And that’s just the beginning of questionable decisions concerning Florida’s university system.

Howard Goodman: Rep. Allen West’s smear of Democratic members of Congress continues to reverberate in Florida and nationwide.

Howard Goodman: A liberal group is urging Florida lawmakers to sever ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the organization that helped spread Stand Your Ground and voting-restriction laws to dozens of states.

Howard Goodman: Republicans have noticed that they aren’t scoring all that well with Latinos — and before the fastest-growing segment of the electorate slips away from them altogether, they’re trying to recover lost ground.

Howard Goodman: Congressman Allen West is saying he “has heard” that some 80 Democratic members of the House of Representatives are Communist Party members.

Howard Goodman: Since Florida passed its new election law last year, almost 81,500 fewer people have registered to vote than in the same period during the 2008 election cycle.

Howard Goodman: As soon as the bill was signed into law in Florida, the NRA’s executive vice president said the pro-gun organization would use the victory to promote the law everywhere.

Howard Goodman: As Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Mitt Romney ends speculation he’ll run for president this year, talk increases of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio as a vice presidential nominee.