Experts Say Voter Error Cause For 18,000 Vote Loss

    It's Saturday morning and not to much going in the world yet.

    Remember the flack down in Florida over the 18,000 votes that were lost in a Congressional race in Sarasota County?  After three months of studying the problem, election officials came out with a stupid voters reason for the votes not being counted. Actually, the officials said that poor ballot design led to voter confusion and that the software used was not to blame.

   These finding come from computer experts at several universities so that should settle the matter, right?

NYTimes

While some voters in Sarasota bristled yesterday at the idea that they had done anything wrong in casting their votes, or that nearly 13 percent of all voters could have failed to spot the race on the ballot, members of the investigative team said that those remained the only plausible theories.

   Once again, the experts are saying that 13 percent of those voters just suddenly became stupid when they got to the ballot section with this congressional race and they forgot to vote in it.

   What about the voters who did cast a vote only to have it register for a candidate that they did not vote for?

 

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