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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 02:37 AM
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11. Not sure where: County Discovers BI (Optical) Ballot Counting Mistake
County Discovers BI Ballot Counting Mistake

By Rachel Pritchett

Kitsap Sun

September 29, 2005

Bainbridge Island

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A jam in a Kitsap County ballot-counting machine on primary election day Sept. 20 caused an miscount of 203 ballots too many, all from Bainbridge Island, according to county Auditor Karen Flynn.

The counting error was discovered during a ballot reconciliation process.

"We had more ballots counted than we had cast," Flynn said Wednesday.

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The machine, called an optical scan ballot tabulator, is one of three at Givens Community Center. A stack of ballots is placed in a hopper on the machine and the ballots are fed through, one at a time. Two stuck together or one going in crooked is enough to cause a jam, Flynn said.

It's an occasional problem, apparently.

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http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6084
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