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Task force votes to dismiss Jennings’s challenge |
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By Aaron Blake
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Posted: 02/08/08 11:13 AM [ET] |
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The task force looking into voting irregularities in a 2006 congressional election in Florida has completed its work and recommended that Democrat Christine Jennings’s challenge to the result of that election be dismissed.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report this week that declared, with 99 percent certainty, that the electronic voting machines used in the election did not cause a massive under-vote in the race.
About 18,000 Sarasota County voters did not cast a vote in the House race, and Jennings alleged that machine malfunctions were the cause. She lost by 369 votes to now-Rep. Vern Buchanan (R).
A representative of the GAO said the testing it conducted on the machines in November and December, combined with several other tests previously done on the machines by the state and independent groups, provided overwhelming proof that the machines did not cause a problem.
The GAO did not request any further testing be done. The full House Administration Committee will take up the recommendation Tuesday, said Salley Collins, a spokeswoman for the committee’s Republican staff.
Jennings is running against Buchanan again in the 2008 election.
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