Posted on 09/01/2004 11:27:29 PM PDT by Pikamax
Thousands of ballots miscounted in Palm Beach County
By Patty Pensa and Anthony Man Staff Writers
September 2, 2004
In a bizarre twist, the election that cost Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore her job became mired Wednesday in a major vote-counting problem when thousands of absentee ballots were counted twice.
Palm Beach County voters cast 31,138 absentee ballots on Tuesday. But when the counting was done early Wednesday morning, the totals showed 37,839 absentee ballots -- an extra 6,701.
With LePore skipping work the day after her narrow loss to Arthur Anderson, the discrepancy was disclosed during a Wednesday morning meeting of the elections Canvassing Board.
The recount, which entailed resending the ballots through optical scanning machines, started at 11 a.m. and finished late Wednesday. Determining the exact number of absentee ballots proved challenging: early Wednesday the total was 31,095. By day's end it was 31,138.
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Here we go again!
Poor Florida.
We should probably let the kids count them. They don't have a political agenda.
These people are as dumb as dirt.
They're practicing already....
Flor-i-duh
Dumb as dirt or crafty as foxes. They don't do an election without looking for a way to break it and abuse it.
again, my apologies for the expletive (in case it gets omitted). The photo was cute, I thought :)
Apparently, this happens behind the scenes all the time. It must be like making sausages: you're not supposed to watch.
I wonder how much of the shenanigans of the Bush/Gore fiasco was incompetence, rather than attempted fraud? How much of it would have occurred without notice if the election hadn't been so close and hinging on the Florida outcome?
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