Votes in Sandusky County, Ohio county twice

[imenja]

http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20041116/localnews/1601347.html

"Sandusky County elections officials discovered some ballots in the Nov. 2 election were counted twice.

The finding further emphasizes the fact that the 49-vote lead Republican challenger Irma Celestino has over Democratic incumbent Anna Senior isn't the final word. That race will be decided when provisional, military or remade ballots are counted and the official count is taken Thursday. It is not known how much of an impact it might have had on any other unofficial count.

Barb Tuckerman, director of the Sandusky County Board of Elections, said when she reviewed election information Nov. 8 she discovered the mistake. . . .

After reviewing the computer discs used to store precinct tallies, officials came to the conclusion that some ballots in nine precincts were counted twice."

[ClarkinMich]

1. didn't even take a hacker to make that happen

just a careless or worse corrupt election worker

or a code "error"

[FormerOstrich]

2. the irony....

"when provisional, military or remade ballots are counted"

Remade? That's a new one to me. Exactly what does that mean. Where are those pesky remade ballots and why haven't they been counted?

[Ducks In A Row]

3. if a ballot won't go through the counter

it's take aside. then someone marks a new ballot with the choices made on the orginial. this is done with some number of people standing/sitting around the marker, all agreeing on the remarking.

I've watched it done (have been a poll observer). The new and the old ballots are usually stored together in an envelope or something.

You can find a state's rules on this sort of thing to see how it's done for your state.

ballots that won't through counting machines is an old problem, pre-dating diebold and their screwups.