House Will Begin Probe Into Florida Election

[kpete]

April 16, 2007, 6:42PM
House to begin probe into Fla. election


By PHIL DAVIS Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A House task force will take the first steps Tuesday in an investigation of a Florida congressional election decided by 369 votes amid complaints that voting machines failed to count thousands of electronic ballots.

Republican Vern Buchanan was declared the winner of the election, a result Democrat Christine Jennings is challenging in Florida court.

The House, which has final authority over its membership, typically waits until legal challenges are completed before taking action. But Florida Democrats last month asked the House Administration Committee to begin reviewing the election after reports of an anomaly in the touch-screen voting machines that recorded about 18,000 skipped votes in Sarasota County.

Committee Chairwoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., created the three-member task force to investigate the issue and report back to the full committee.

Jennings' spokesman David Kochman said it is time for congressional intervention and order a revote.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4720318.html

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