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Scoop Link: CBS News - Florida Recount, 2006-Style

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Florida Recount, 2006-Style


Large "undervote" in hot House race raises voting machine concerns.

By Armen Keteyian, Phil Hirschkorn and Michael Rey
CBS News
Saturday 11 November 2006

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/11/cbsnews_investigates/main2174376.shtml

On Monday Florida will begin its first recount for a federal election since the botched 2000 presidential contest, but this time there will be no hanging chads. It is the reliability of touch screen electronic voting machines that will be in the spotlight.

The disputed race in Florida's 13th Congressional District, south of Tampa, is one place where the kind of machines used by 40% of American voters this week may have malfunctioned significantly enough to alter the outcome of a seat in Congress.

The CBS News Investigative Unit has obtained an E-mail by a key election official indicating she may have known well before Election Day the machines weren't working properly.

Republican Vern Buchanan beat Democrat Christine Jennings by 373 votes with 237,842 counted, according to unofficial results from the Florida Division of Elections.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111206X.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/11/cbsnews_investigates/main2174376.shtml

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