"oops"...vote-counting mistakes

I'm reading too many stories of voting "irregularities" that occured on Tuesday. Most have been occuring with e-voting computers. A glitch here and there is understandable, but rampant and repeated mistakes suggests one of two things: either the mechanisms for recording votes are screwy, or there's fraud. Neither is acceptable in the biggest, oldest, strongest, proudest, and "securist" democracy in the world.

I am going to use this post to document those reports that I have come across. As I find more instances (if I find more) I am going to update this post. If I'm missing any, please e-mail me:

• 245 votes were left uncounted in the August primaries in the Tampa area of Florida.


• 40 votes were possibly lost when voting machines in Palm Beach County ran out of battery power


• 4500 votes when too many votes are cast in Carteret County, NC. Of the 7537 votes cast, only the first 3005 were recorded.


• Voters in New Orleans were not able to vote for the first several hours of election day, being turned away and told to come back because the voting machines wouldn't boot up.


• Bush receives 3893 extra votes in suburban Columbus. The problem was noticed when Bush beat Kerry 4,258 to 260.


• Backward counting tabulators were used in Broward County, FL. Odd as it may be for voting machines to ever be programmed to ever begin taking away votes, the machines did so once they reached 32,000.