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Florida: Map of Sarasota Undervotes
(November 14, 2006)
Shows a map with results in Sarasota for the Congressional race in the 13th District.

Florida: Four Counties Show Large Undervotes
(November 10, 2006)
Shows the DRE screen for the Congressional race in the 13th District. Layout of the screens may have been a strong reason for the undervotes in four counties.

Florida: Sarasota "Undervotes" Cast Doubts
(November 10, 2006)
"Most of the post-election attention Thursday remained focused on Sarasota County, where more than 18,000 blank ballots -- representing 13 percent of the 142,284 ballots cast -- could have affected the outcome of one of the most hotly contested congressional races in the country."

"In that race, Republican Vern Buchanan defeated Democrat Christine Jennings by only 373 votes -- triggering a likely recount."

"But an Orlando Sentinel review of results among the 24 other counties that use the same electronic-voting machines as Sarasota found three other instances -- in Sumter, Lee and Charlotte counties -- where an even higher percentage of ballots failed to show any vote cast in the race for state attorney general."

"By comparison, undervotes in those same counties in the U.S. Senate race were no higher than 1.5 percent." -Orlando Sentinel

California: San Diego Exit Poll Shows 6-Point Distortion from Announced Results
(November 10, 2006)
"The exit poll shows the race much tighter than the results published by the San Diego Registrar of Voters as of the day after the election, six percentage points closer. Moreover, after adjustment for an oversampling of Bilbray voters, the adjusted poll shows Democrat Francine Busby well within the margin of error, making the race uncertain in actual outcome. Paper based votes yet to be counted favor Francine Busby, such as paper ballots obtained at the polls, which constitute 6.4% of all voters and favor Busby 58% to 39%." -Paul Lehto, BradBlog.com

National Election Results
(November 10, 2006)
Provides national and state election results for 2006. -MSNBC News

Ohio: Success in Cuyahoga County Cost an Extra $17 per Voter
(November 9, 2006)
"After the mess of the May primary in Cuyahoga County, where results were delayed for a week because of technological glitches, county commissioners opened their checkbook to make sure the general election would go well." -Cleveland Plain Dealer

Virginia: No Paper Vote Record Required
(November 9, 2006)
"Virginia, home to a close race likely to determine which party controls the U.S. Senate, has no mechanism for independent audits of electronic-voting machines used in the majority of its counties." -ITWorld.com


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