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November 29, 2006

"On day 1 of vote test, numbers don't add up"

"An audit of the county's touch-screen voting machines Tuesday found several discrepancies, most prominently in the disputed 13th Congressional District race, but state elections officials said it is unclear whether the problems were the result of human or machine error.

All four voting machines that officials used to simulate the Nov. 7 election had miscounts, and three of them had miscounts in the District 13 race.

Republican Vern Buchanan was certified the winner last week over Democrat Christine Jennings by 369 votes.

But there were more than 18,000 undervotes in the race, prompting a recount and now a state audit."

The story is here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at November 29, 2006 09:10 AM