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November 14, 2006
Final Tally In....Maybe
Looks like Benton Co. has a final vote count, after three tries.....one of which appeared to show an 83% voter turnout (it was actually about 50%) and a few towns in which every man, woman, child and dog voted.
Now before you start in about the new electronic voting machines, the errors were mostly caused by.....humans.
On election night, two errors occurred simultaneously, McCarthy said. The first error was a computer glitch caused when the county's information services department tried to send a live feed of results to an election watch party at the Clarion Hotel in Bentonville. That glitch caused votes to be deleted as new results were entered six precincts at a time.
The second error caused vote totals to soar as temporary election workers failed to reset the machines that tabulate the paper ballots. Because they failed to reset the machines, some precincts were counted more than once, McCarthy said.
Oopsie.
The election commission is satisfied that they've finally gotten the correct results, though some candidates may ask for a hand recount in the close races.
Can't say that I blame them.
Posted by Rita at November 14, 2006 06:47 AM