Memory Card Blamed In Seminole County

Every Ballot Being Recounted By Hand

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. -- Minor mathematical errors have caused the canvassing board of Seminole County to recount by hand every one of 137,350 ballots cast on Tuesday.

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Seminole County election personnel spent all night Wednesday recounting ballots.

Mathematical mistakes were found in 52 of the county's 133 precincts.

At first, the county decided to recount only the ballots with discrepancies, but representatives of the Republican and Democratic party objected.

In one precinct, there were 1,350 available voters and 986 votes were cast. However an election worker wrote that more than 3,000 ballots were used.

"It was a long day and at the end of the day it was just a matter of not properly filling out the bottom of the ballot accounting form," Seminole County election supervisor Sandy Gordon said.

Another problem popped up Thursday that could affect the vote tally.

Gordon said that there may be a vote difference in one precinct because of a faulty computer memory card that corrupted before they were able to feed all the ballots through the system.

One worker said that the discrepancy could amount to a 30 vote difference.

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