VOTING (CONT)

Though the undercount rates were less than 1% for both devices, if the trend found by the Sun-Sentinel holds in November that could mean 7,800 incorrect votes in Palm Beach and Broward counties alone -- a huge number in a state that was decided by 537 votes last time around.

Voters seem to be mindful of that in Palm Beach County, where Addie Greene was promoting the use of absentee ballots. More than 31,000 of the 207,000 voters in last month's primary used the mail-in ballots instead of going to the polls -- three times as many as usual.

When the votes were counted, Theresa LePore, the county elections supervisor who created the infamous butterfly ballot and oversaw the move to touch-screen machines, was out of office. She was replaced by Arthur Anderson, a political unknown who made adding printers to e-voting machines a central issue in his campaign.Though the undercount rates were less than 1% for both devices, if the trend found by the Sun-Sentinel holds in November that could mean 7,800 incorrect votes in Palm Beach and Broward counties alone -- a huge number in a state that was decided by 537 votes last time around.

Voters seem to be mindful of that in Palm Beach County, where Addie Greene was promoting the use of absentee ballots. More than 31,000 of the 207,000 voters in last month's primary used the mail-in ballots instead of going to the polls -- three times as many as usual.

When the votes were counted, Theresa LePore, the county elections supervisor who created the infamous butterfly ballot and oversaw the move to touch-screen machines, was out of office. She was replaced by Arthur Anderson, a political unknown who made adding printers to e-voting machines a central issue in his campaign.

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