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Company's computer eats up 4,000 votes in Carteret County, N.C.
By Jannette Pippin, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 4--BEAUFORT, N.C. -- Bill Henderson spent weeks encouraging people in Carteret County to get out and vote. Now, the chairman of the county's Democratic Party isn't even sure his own vote was counted.
Henderson was one of 7,537 Carteret County residents who voted during the no-excuses, one-stop voting period in October. Wednesday, he and thousands of early voters wondered whether their ballots were recorded along with those cast on Election Day.
Less than 24 hours after the mistake was found, no one could say for sure. All Carteret County election officials could say is that more than 4,000 early votes cast electronically were lost. There were 3,005 early votes that were valid, but Henderson said everyone who goes to the polls should know their ballot was tallied.
"We spent several weeks asking people to go…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Company's computer eats up 4,000 votes in Carteret County, N.C.
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