Reply #12: Cook board president's race still too close to call

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
By Jonathan Lipman
Staff writer

New voting technology made chaos of the returns Tuesday night, and both campaigns called the results unacceptable. About 14 percent of the vote remains uncounted
City election officials stopped counting at about 1 a.m. and have 365 precincts left to count, spokesman Tom Leach said. Several machines saw their computer data tapes fail. so they'll began a manual recount of paper ballots this afternoon, but do not expect to finish today.

County election officials had a different problem, with about 175 to 200 of the precincts' data tapes missing.
Spokesman Scott Burnham said they think most will tapes were stuck into "transfer cases" by election judges and then taken to the county's Kinzie Street warehouse.
Officials plan to find those tapes and have most counted by the end of this afternoon.
Claypool campaign chairman Mike Quigley said he does not question the integrity of votes already counted, but is worried officials weren't certain where to find missing ballots.

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