Onslow County N.C.failed to count 9,943 ballots on May 6, election night [View All]

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Onslow County North Carolina failed to count 9,943 ballots on May 6, election night. That is 15% of all ballots cast.
Onslow uses 100% paper using ES&S M100 optical scanners and Automark ballot marking devices.
This had nothing to do with paper or lack of. This appears to be a failure to upload all results or to do so incorrectly. It would seem reconciling the election night materials would have caught this 15% discrepancy?? I don't have all of the answers.

Thousands of votes missed in Tuesday tallies

Same candidates win; commissioner vote rankings change. JD News May 9, 2008

Thousands of votes were omitted from election-night tallies, election officials have determined, but new unofficial results do not change which candidates won.
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The Onslow County Board of Elections has corrected the number on the results Web site and is saying that no results were changed as to who won or lost the race.

The rankings among the candidates for Onslow County Board of Commissioners did change, however, as 9,943 more votes from the ballots were added. The change also considerably narrows the gap - from 82 to eight votes - between the top five vote-getters in the Republican race for those seats and the next runner up, who changed from Jack Bright to Jeff Jones - so a few provisional ballots could change that race's outcome.

N.C. Rep. Robert Grady, R-Onslow (District 15), said he filed a complaint with the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Thursday afternoon after he noticed a major discrepancy in the votes and could not reach Rose Whitehurst, director of the
Onslow County Board of Elections.

...Grady thought the votes were from the Jacksonville Commons' one-stop voting.
"People that voted before (May 2) with the one-stop voting didn't have their vote counted," he said.

Grady said he was told that the tabulator broke and the Onslow County Board of Elections then took the numbers from the computer and put them on a card.

"The votes from this card were not counted (Tuesday)," he said.

...more at the link

The vote totals before and after correction

Total previous results: 55,929

Total corrected results: 65,872

Difference 9,943