Report: Invalid Florida ballots at all time low in 2004 election

[Freddie Stubbs]

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The banishment of chads helped lead to the lowest level of invalid ballots ever measured in a presidential or gubernatorial election in Florida, said a report released Tuesday.

Floridians cast about 1.5 million more votes in the 2004 presidential election than they did in the disputed 2000 contest, yet the combined number of overvotes and undervotes fell by about 83 percent from 179,855 to 31,453, according to the report prepared by the Department of State.

George W. Bush carried the state by nearly 381,000 votes.

Overvotes are ballots on which more than one candidate is selected; undervotes are ballots on which no candidate is selected. In 2000, 2.9 percent of all ballots cast were invalid because of overvotes and undervotes, a figure that dropped to 0.78 percent in the 2002 gubernatorial election and 0.41 percent last November.

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[wellst0nev0ter]

1. Did Those Include The Votes Invalidated/Altered By

the black box data grinder?

[displacedtexan]

2. And in other news from Plant OH RIGHT SURE...

Republicans don't cheat or work day & night to keep Democrats from voting.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. Who is a plant?

:shrug:

[displacedtexan]

4. That should have been "Planet."

Wasn't paying attention.

[L. Coyote]

5. This is what Blackwell prevented from happening in Ohio Kerry country.

Unlike in Florida, Ohio's SOS refused to fix this problem before 2004.

In the next election, there will be no punch card voting left anywhere. However, as seen in New mexico, that is not enough to prevent high percentages of non-voting.