Group calls for audit of March 7 elections - Pinellas Co, FL

[DoYouEverWonder]

March 14, 2006

CLEARWATER - State regulators are weighing an audit of Pinellas County's March 7 municipal elections, which snagged when a computer server froze and delayed the tallying of votes for two hours.

Officials with the Division of Elections said such reviews are rare at the local level, and could not recall when they last did one.

Bob Jackson was among the losers in the elections, which took place in Largo, Palm Harbor and Pinellas Park. City Commissioner Pat Gerard beat him in the mayor's race by 172 votes out of 6,290 cast.

Jackson does not dispute the results but says an audit is warranted.

"A neutral person ought to come in," he said. "There's an awful lot of suspicion about the whole operation."

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/14/Northpinellas/Group_calls_for_audit.shtml


Keep in mind, Supervisor Of Elections Deborah Clark is a major Bushbot.

[Up2Late]

1. I wonder if others can join this "Group," or if they are limiting

...the membership for some reason?

<http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/14/Northpinellas/Group_calls_for_audit.shtml>

...The state's interest comes in response to the Voting Integrity Alliance of Tampa Bay, which is skeptical about the kind of touch screen voting technology the county uses and champions the virtues of paper ballots.

The group, which has about 15 members, sent a letter Monday to the Secretary of State calling for an audit. The election results are "highly suspect" and details of the count "of interest to voting system experts across the country," the letter states....

[Wilms]

2. Thanks for the post. n/t