Gov. Bush says undervotes worth investigating

[kster]

BY MITCH STACY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRADENTON. -- Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday the unusually high number of voters who didn't choose a candidate in a congressional race in Sarasota County was worth investigating, and said the state has "the law in place to do it right."

"This is obviously something we need to look into, and very quickly," Bush said as state elections officials prepared to oversee an expected recount next week in the 13th District race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings.

Jennings was behind in the initial count by 373 votes and was pressing for answers about why more than 18,000 voters didn't register a selection in the race, but did make choices in other contests. That rate was much higher than what the district's other counties registered in the same congressional race.

State elections officials planned an audit of the Sarasota County's election system after the recount, which is expected to occur next week.

The county uses touch-screen machines, which were meant to avoid some of the problems Florida saw in 2000, when it became the center of national attention over the same issue.


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[philb]

1. Does anyone know the URL for Florida county undervotes by major races?

[philb]

2. Does anyone have time to compile the undervotes and % undervotes for Hillsboro Co-nearby at this sit

http://www.votehillsborough.org/getdocument.aspx?id=22

for U.S. Senate and the 3 Congressional races and Governor and Attorney General races


or for other such counties

download the exel files