<58000 (of 60000) absentee ballots have been "lost" in florida>

This excerpt from a Reuters article on yahoo (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=6&u=/nm/campaign_florida_dc)

Notice anything contradictory in it?
I read it three times before it made sense to me.
This will be another fiasco.

-and its not even november yet...


Poll workers will be able to cross-check through lap top computers hooked up to a central database whether voters had already sent in absentee ballots. On election day itself, those who requested absentee ballots will only be able to vote in person if they bring the blank absentee forms with them.

"A lot of people are very concerned because they think that just because they requested an absentee ballot, now they're stuck in a limbo situation where they don't have their ballot and they can't vote," Salas said.

"So most definitely we want to get the message out that yes they can go to an early voting site and cast their ballot and that's what we would encourage them to do," she said.