Reply #3: LaSalle County:Technician causes glitch in printed results

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Posted Online: March 22, 2006

Technician causes glitch in printed results
TAMMIE SLOUP, [email protected], [phone]

Vote totals posted on La Salle County's Web site and on the printouts brought down to the basement of the County Governmental Center Tuesday night were incorrect.
The problem was caused by a technician with the county's voting system's vendor, ES&S Elections, whom County Clerk Mary Jane Wilkinson dubbed "inexperienced."
When the vote results were being tabulated for one of the early precincts, only the early votes were being tallied for the printouts and for the Web site results.
Wilkinson stressed all the votes were being tabulated in the computer system; however, incorrect numbers were being printed and posted on the Web site.
"The vote totals were never in question," she said.
The technician, in an attempt to correct his mistake, then created a problem with eight additional precincts, in which the votes were being doubled.

A total of 13,382 ballots were cast out of 72,650 registered voters. The number of Democrat ballots cast was 5,415; Republicans cast 6,883. Non-partisan ballots totaled 1,073, and there were 11 federal ballots.

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