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33,000 Ballots Lost In Shuffle
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune, November 13, 2004
Posted: November 11th, 2006
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Posted: November 11th, 2006
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Voters in Utah County had more than a one in five chance that their ballots did not get counted in the initial, unofficial tally from Election Day. A programming glitch in the punch-card counter dropped 33,000 ballots from the totals - all of them straight-party ballots. That was more than 22 percent of the 145,769 ballots cast in the Republican stronghold. "The card readers were fine; it was just the way it was programmed initially," Utah County elections coordinator Kristen Swensen said Friday. "It was just off by one letter."