According to The Wall Street Journal, in the 2000 general election
an optical-scan machine in Allamakee County, Iowa, was fed
300 ballots and reported 4 million votes. The county auditor tried
the machine again but got the same result. Eventually, the machine?s
manufacturer, ES&S, agreed to have replacement equipment sent.
Republicans had hoped that the tiny but heavily Republican county
would tip the scales in George W. Bush?s favor, but tipping it by
almost four million votes attracted national attention.
?We don?t have four million voters in the state of Iowa,? said Bill
Roe Jr., county auditor.
Todd Urosevich of ES&S said ?You are going to have some failures.?
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November, 2003: Officials from Boone County, Indiana, wanted
to know why their MicroVote machines counted 144,000 votes cast
when only 5,352 existed.
...
In Volusia County,
Florida, during the 2000 presidential election, the Socialist Workers
Party candidate received almost 10,000 votes ? about half the number
he received nationwide. Four thousand erroneous votes appeared for
George W. Bush while at the same time, presidential candidate Al
Gore received negative 16,022 votes.
...
November 2002, Comal County, Texas: A Texas-sized anomaly
on ES&S machines was discovered when the uncanny coincidence
came to light that three winning Republican candidates in a row tallied
exactly 18,181 votes. It was called weird, but apparently no one
thought it was weird enough to audit. 54 Comal County?s experience
shows why a simple, random, spot-check audit is insufficient.
...
On November
10, the Miami Herald listed the following figures for the
total votes cast at the Democrat-friendly Broward County Century
Village precinct in the general election:
1994: 7,515
1998: 10,947
2002: 4,179
Yet an accountant called Century Village and was told that its occupancy
had remained stable (around 13,000 residents) since the complex
had hit capacity in 1998.
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