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November 30, 2006

'Incorrect tallying procedure led to faulty vote totals in county'

"Election officials in Fairfield County used incorrect procedures to tabulate voting results that were certified, prompting the board to hastily convene hours later to correct the totals.

The problem happened when voting machine maker Diebold Inc. failed to notify elections officials about a change in how votes should be totaled because an issue was removed from the statewide ballot, said Andrew Stemen, the board's election information specialist.

"What basically happened is that, because Issue One was removed from the ballot, we had to tell the software to do something different," Stemen said."

The story is here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at November 30, 2006 10:52 AM