Tag: Christine Jennings
Posted on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 01:29:44 PM EST
Tags: Christine Jennings, Howard Dean (all tags)
Howard Dean took up Cristine Jennings' cause today, calling for a new election in the Florida House race:
State officials certified Buchanan as the winner by just 369 votes. But Jennings claims that touch-screen voting machines in Sarasota County malfunctioned in the U.S. House District 13 race and possibly cost her the election.
More than 18,000 Sarasota County voters who marked other races didn't have a vote register in the House race, a rate much higher than the rest of the district.
'There are 18,000 people who may have voted, and we don't know what happened to their votes. You can bet that if the Republicans were 500 votes short they'd be calling for a new election, and they'd be right,' Dean said.
This is the seat formerly held by Katherine Harris. The winner has been declared to be Republican Vern Buchanan.
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