Thursday, December 28, 2006

The Herald-Tribune of Sarasota

Reporting by The Herald-Tribune of Sarasota, which interviewed hundreds of voters who called the paper to report problems at the polls, strongly suggests that the huge apparent undervote was caused by bugs in the ES&S soft ware. About a third of those interviewed by the paper reported they couldn’t even find the congressional race on the screen. This could conceivably have been the result of bad ballot design, but many of them insisted that they looked hard for the race. Moreover, over 60% of those interviewed by The Herald-Tribune reported that they did cast a vote in the congressional race – but that this vote didn’t show up on the ballot summary page they were shown at the end of the voting process.

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Source:- IIPM Editorial

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