Task force votes to dismiss Jennings’s challenge

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Hill

By Aaron Blake
Posted: 02/08/08 11:13 AM

The task force looking into voting irregularities in a 2006 congressional election in Florida has completed its work and recommended that Democrat Christine Jennings’s challenge to the result of that election be dismissed.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report this week that declared, with 99 percent certainty, that the electronic voting machines used in the election did not cause a massive under-vote in the race.

About 18,000 Sarasota County voters did not cast a vote in the House race, and Jennings alleged that machine malfunctions were the cause. She lost by 369 votes to now-Rep. Vern Buchanan (R).

A representative of the GAO said the testing it conducted on the machines in November and December, combined with several other tests previously done on the machines by the state and independent groups, provided overwhelming proof that the machines did not cause a problem.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/task-force-votes-to-dismiss-jenningss-challenge-2008-02-08.html

[blm]

1. Of course it has. Justice gets rigged as easily as the vote count.

We've seen that for 8 years now.

[ixion]

2. so 18,000 people didn't vote for a rep

yeah, right. :eyes:

[madmom]

3. they are right, the machines did not cause the problem, hackers did!

[Stevepol]

4. Nothing wrong with the machines. They work just as they are programmed to work.