Friday, July 30, 2004

Electronic records of some Florida elections wiped out in computer crash, officials say

By Hilary Roxe, AP writer, San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 2004



Excerpts:



"A computer crash erased detailed records from Miami-Dade County's first widespread use of touchscreen voting machines, raising again the specter of elections troubles in Florida, where the new technology was supposed to put an end to such problems.



The crashes occurred in May and November of 2003, erasing information from the September 2002 gubernatorial primaries and other elections, elections officials said Tuesday.



The malfunction was made public after the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, a citizen's group, requested all data from the 2002 gubernatorial primary between Democratic candidates Janet Reno and Bill McBride."

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