Orlando Sentinel Analysis of District 13 Undervotes

The Orlando Sentinel did an analysis of

The group of nearly 18,000 voters that registered no choice in Sarasota's disputed congressional election solidly backed Democratic candidates in all five of Florida's statewide races, an Orlando Sentinel analysis of ballot data shows.

Among these voters, even the weakest Democrat -- agriculture-commissioner candidate Eric Copeland -- outpaced a much-better-known Republican incumbent by 551 votes.

The trend, which continues up the ticket to the race for governor and U.S. Senate, suggests that if votes were truly cast and lost -- as Democrat Christine Jennings maintains -- they were votes that likely cost her the congressional election.

Since there is no paper trail it's nearly impossible to determine where the undervotes would have gone. 18,000 undervotes is a ridiculously high number. I don't buy Vern Buchanan's excuse that all those undervotes skipped a Congressional race.