Congress Report on District 13 Race
File this under you got to be kidding me department.
A bipartisan task force said Friday that it had found no evidence of voting machine malfunctions in a disputed 2006 Florida congressional election.
The panel agreed that U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, who has less than a year remaining in his term, can stay in Congress. He had been seated by the Democratic-controlled House while it probed the election.
The task force was formed after Buchanan's Democratic opponent, Christine Jennings, challenged the validity of the results because more than 18,000 ballots did not indicate a selected candidate in the 13th Congressional District race.
The panel concluded that the undervotes were caused either by voters who intentionally did not vote for a congressional candidate or were
MIT Professor Charles Stewart's study found the odds were 5 million to one that 18,000 did not register a vote in the Congressional race.
Somewhere Brad Friedman's head is exploding right now.
Labels: christine jennings, district 13, vern buchanan, voting
1 Comments:
what a C R O C K.
But, no surprise. good post.
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