Posted on 11/06/2002 6:52:06 PM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
Broward reports wrong vote totals
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More than 100,000 votes went missing on Tuesday between the time they were counted by electronic machines and the time they were reported on cable-access television and on the Supervisor of Elections web site.
A glitch in the vote reporting system left a 104,000-vote difference between Tuesday night's totals and those reported late Wednesday.
Election officials said the error has no effect on the outcome of any races, though voter turnout jumped from 35 percent to 45 percent after it was corrected.
And it raises questions about how the supervisor's office could have missed that many votes.
''The initial reports didn't include everything we tabulated,'' Deputy Supervisor Joe Cotter said. ``It was a minor software thing. Once we realized it, we took the proper steps to fix it.''
Before the county canvassing board members went home early Wednesday, they saw a discrepancy in the vote reports, which showed 402,951 people voted in the governor's race, but only 337,976 total ballots were cast.
''That was the red flag,'' said Charles Lindsey, an election monitor from the state Division of Elections.
Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant said the problem was ''small,'' but admitted she didn't know what prompted it. ''That's what the technical folks, the [Election Systems & Software] people, are trying to figure out,'' she said.
The canvassing board plans to meet at 9:30 tonight to certify all the votes, except for about 3,000 provisional ballots. Those will be certified Thursday morning, before the canvassing board releases official tallies to the state.
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Yes, they ARE crooks down in the Miami area, and not just involving elections. All most all of the government offices in that area are so corrupt that it is disgusting!
At least most people could understand chads. You could show one on TV and grandma could grasp the excuse. It was more plausible than "Oh Hey, we just created ...um, we just FOUND 100,000 votes. Oh, did we just tip the balance in this race. Aw shucks. No, I can explain this, but our IT people say it must be true."
Oh yeah, dems are gonna love this technology.
It is very difficult to blame voter fraud when your guy lost by 700,000 votes, though
I'm with ya, but damn - how many times will it take for the FloriDUH folks to get it right.
I'm thinking they may need some election supervision from some other states that do not have these problems.
It's beyond funny. Fire the entire crew in the 3 infamous counties. I'll risk the flames and bet that all the "officials" (giggle) in these counties are at least 65 years of age. I'll be glad if I'm wrong.
Gee, golly, whiz, shucks - I read earlier that the vote in FloriDUH went smooth. I thought they finally got a passing grade in the rocket science of election voting process.
Guess I was wrong. Why is it I'm not surprised?
More than 100,000 votes went missing on Tuesday between the time they were counted by electronic machines and the time they were reported..
Now I know why they had the helicopter camera coverage of moving the ballots in the 2000 debacle. Seems completely justified now - they can't be trusted to keep track of sh*T.
Fire them all and re-staff with people - that have brains.
LVM
Move on, nothing to look at here.
''That was the red flag,'' said Charles Lindsey, an election monitor from the state Division of Elections"
Gee, DO YA THINK???????
Criminy............
Duh!
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