Florida voting in dispute again
17th Nov 2006, 04:51 GMT
US: The touch screen has now joined hanging chads and butterfly ballots in Florida's election scandal lore. Voters in the 13th congressional district were asked to cast ballots on November 7th in several contests at once, but 21,000 of those who voted appear not to have cast their preferences in the district representative contest to replace Republican representative Katherine Harris.
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