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Article: Utah County votes counted incorrectly

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November 14, 2004
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OREM -- A programming mistake caused punch-card reading machines in Utah County to not count 33,000 straight-party votes cast on Nov. 2.

The machines added up the total number of ballots but didn't forward votes to the candidate columns.

"The initial counter didn't carry the straight-party votes into the individual races," said Neil Peterson, director of information systems for Utah County.

The error initially was brought to the attention of State Elections Director Amy Nacarrato by the Deseret Morning News, which first reported the abnormal totals on Nov. 4. At the time, the unofficial computer tally showed that 144,423 Utah County residents cast ballots, but that only 110,143 voted in the ...

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