Unbelievable.
One district in Florida appears headed for another recount. The touch-screen voting machines in Sarasota County may have botched this year's election, and it's likely going to mean another Florida recount.
Election results show that more than 18-thousand county voters who marked other races didn't have a vote register in the House race, a rate much higher than in the rest of the district.
The county elections supervisor defended her staff and the voting machines, arguing that the thousands of voters must have either overlooked the race or simply decided not to vote for either candidate. Republican Vern Buchanan has declared victory in the race with a 373-vote lead over Democrat Christine Jennings.
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To do a manual recount for touch-screens, officials go back over the images of the electronic ballots where the machine didn't register a choice. But state rules essentially say that if the machine doesn't show that a voter chose a candidate, the voter is assumed to have meant to skip the race - it would be tough to prove otherwise.
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