Here's the St. Pete Times Online link. Looks like something that keeps on happening, but what do you do about it? A recount is not possible!
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/10/news_pf/State/How_do_you_recount_el.shtmlFueled by a paper-thin margin in a race with national implications, a voting controversy in Sarasota has sparked a fast-growing statewide debate about the accuracy of electronic voting. On Monday, state elections officials will oversee a recount in the 13th Congressional District race in Sarasota, between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings. Already, a group of U.S. House staffers who oversee election disputes have arrived in Sarasota. The non-partisan group Common Cause has called for a re-do of the election. And Jennings, who lost by a scant 373 votes out of 237,861 cast, may take the matter to court.
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Ivan Kristjanson, a 73-year-old retiree, noticed that at the end of his electronic ballot that he had not cast a ballot in the congressional race.
“I figured I didn’t push the screen hard enough,” he said. He went back and re-voted in that race, and only became concerned a few minutes later when he was in his car listening to a caller on a radio show who had had the same problem. He went back to the polling precinct.
“This is going to be a very serious situation,” Kristjanson said he told the poll workers. “Especially if there’s a close race.”
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