Channel six in central Florida just announced

[sherilocks]

that a few thousand extra votes were "found" that will pass Amendment 4 without a recount. Of course they were "found" in south Florida. No link yet.

[Supersedeas]

1. a few thousand missing here...a few there...a little diebold...a little

optical switch and bam...voila...Jebby's 2nd Successful Coup

[Vickers]

2. What, the slot machines?

Great. That'll bring some more great folks down here. :eyes:

[pdx_prog]

3. So what will happen?

[sherilocks]

4. Amendment 4 allows slot machines in greyhound

racing tracks. But my point is that the lost votes suddenly appeared when it looked like the amendment was going down the tubes. How many more votes were lost, like votes for K/E?

[montana500]

5. POUND THIS STORY

This is NOT SMALL.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Now that it's a free for all

the pigs are going to gouge themselves.

Can't wait to see what else they pull.

[robbedvoter]

7. Got votes?

Famous last words:
"I have no time for those crying in your teacups for stolen elections"
John Kerry, campaign trail 2003

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. link?

That's not the exact quote I recall. You are making Kerry into more of a villain.

[LaReservaPr]

8. Its going on everywhere.

N.C. Computer Loses More Than 4,500 Votes

21 minutes ago
Yahoo News

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.


Local officials said UniLect Corp., the maker of the county's electronic voting system, told them that each storage unit could handle 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes.


Expecting the greater capacity, the county used only one unit during the early voting period. "If we had known, we would have had the units to handle the votes," said Sue Verdon, secretary of the county election board.


Officials said 3,005 early votes were stored, but 4,530 were lost.


Jack Gerbel, president and owner of Dublin, Calif.-based UniLect, said Thursday that the county's elections board was given incorrect information. There is no way to retrieve the missing data, he said.


"That is the situation and it's definitely terrible," he said.


In a letter to county officials, he blamed the mistake on confusion over which model of the voting machines was in use in Carteret County. But he also noted that the machines flash a warning message when there is no more room for storing ballots.


"Evidently, this message was either ignored or overlooked," he wrote.


County election officials were meeting with State Board of Elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett on Thursday and did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.


The loss of the votes didn't appear to change the outcome of county races, and President Bush (news - web sites) won the state by about 430,000 votes in unofficial returns. But that wasn't the issue for Alecia Williams, who voted on one of the final days of the early voting period.


"The point is not whether the votes would have changed things, it's that they didn't get counted at all," Williams said.


Two statewide races remained undecided Thursday, for superintendent of public instruction, where the two candidates are about 6,700 votes apart, and agriculture commissioner, where they are only hundreds of votes apart.


How those two races might be affected by problems in individual counties was uncertain. The state still must tally more than 73,000 provisional ballots, plus those from four counties that have not yet submitted their provisionals, said Johnnie McLean, deputy director of the state elections board.


Nationwide, only scattered problems were reported in electronic voting, though roughly 40 million people cast digital ballots, voting equipment company executives had said.