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Jennings challenges 369-vote loss in congressional race
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Jennings challenges 369-vote loss in congressional race
BILL KACZOR
Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Democrat Christine Jennings officially contested her 369-vote loss in the 13th Congressional District on Monday immediately after the Florida Election Canvassing Commission certified the results in the race.

A manual recount last week confirmed Republican Vern Buchanan was the winner over Jennings in the southwest Florida district being vacated by Republican Rep. Katherine Harris, who ran for the U.S. Senate and lost.

Legal papers filed in Circuit Court here ask that a judge order a new election, citing statistical and eyewitness evidence that touch-screen voting machines had malfunctioned in Sarasota County.

More than 17,000 Sarasota voters who cast ballots in other races Nov. 7 failed to vote in the congressional contest, a rate nearly six times higher than in the other District 13 counties or on Sarasota's paper absentee ballots, the suit alleges.

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