Fwd: Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: "Mulder, Michelle" <michelle.mulder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: November 5, 2004 11:15:59 AM MST
> Subject: Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes
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> "Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic
> challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638
> voters cast ballots in that precinct."
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> http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10103910.htm?1c
> Posted on Fri, Nov. 05, 2004
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> Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes
>
> Associated Press
>
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> COLUMBUS, Ohio - A computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave
> President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.
>
> Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic
> challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638
> voters cast ballots in that precinct.
>
> Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections,
> said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots
> either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president.
>
> Damschroder said he received some calls Thursday from people who saw the
> error when reading the list of poll results on the election board's Web
> site.
>
> He said the error would have been discovered when the official canvass for
> the election is performed later this month.
>
> Damschroder said after Precinct 1B closed, a cartridge from one of three
> voting machines at the polling place generated a faulty number at a
> computerized reading station.
>
> The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race.
>
> Damschroder said the cartridge was retested Thursday and there were no
> problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.
>
> Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine
> Thursday and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine.
> With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365
> votes.
>
> Information from: The Columbus Dispatch