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Monday, November 20, 2006
Jennings contests election result in Florida
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic congressional candidate Christine Jennings officially contested her loss in the 13th Congressional District Monday -- shortly after the Florida Election Canvassing Commission declared her GOP opponent, Vern Buchanan, the winner.
The complaint alleges that touch-screen voting machines malfunctioned in Sarasota County -- a county she won by six percentage points -- and may have failed to report as many as 17,000 votes. "The failure to include those votes constitutes a rejection of a number of legal votes sufficient to place in doubt, and likely change, the outcome of the election," the complaint notes. Buchanan won the race by 369 votes. -- CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney |
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