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FIGURE 8.4 This Diebold voting machine uses a touch-sensitive screen to capture each
voter's choices. (© AP photo/Rogelio Solis)
. In November 2002, a programming error caused a touch-screen voting machine to
fail to record 436 ballots cast in Wake County, North Carolina [37].
. Touch-screen voting machines reported that 144,000 ballots were cast in a 2003
election held in Boone County, Indiana, even though the county had only 19,000
registered voters. After a programming error was fixed, the ballots were recounted,
producing new results consistent with the number of votes actually cast. However,
because there was no paper audit trail, there was no way to know if the new results
were correct [38].
. Florida held a special election in January 2004 to determine who would represent
State House District 91. When the 10,844 votes were tallied, the voting machines
reported that 134 voters had not voted for a candidate, even though that was the
only race on the ballot. The winning candidate received 12 more votes than the
runner-up. Since the voting machines had no record of the original votes, there was
no recount [38].
. In November 2004, initial printouts from all the DRE voting machines in LaPorte
County, Indiana, reported exactly 300 votes, disregarding more than 50,000 votes
until the problem was sorted out [39].
 
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