At issue: more than 18,380 nonvotes -- called "undervotes" -- in Sarasota County, where numerous voters and a few poll workers complained the touch-screen voting machines failed to register votes. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There's already talk about what to do about the 15,000 or so so-called "undervotes" - ballots where there was a vote recorded by the optical scanners for President but not for the Senate race. ❋ Unknown (2008)
My best understanding is that the undervotes are a result of the ballot design. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I am here to discuss some empirical facts about undervotes, which is, of course, of great concern to us all. ❋ Unknown (2000)
While attorneys for Al Gore want the Florida Supreme Court to order a quick recount of all so-called undervotes from Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties, Bush attorneys argue there is no legal basis to recount only selected ballots. ❋ Unknown (2000)
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the counting of those 9,000 so-called undervotes from Miami-Dade County began a couple of hours ago and is proceeding as we speak. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The last chart: This is a chart that shows what percentage of the so-called undervotes, or nonvotes, people are able to identify as a clear vote for president when they look at the ballots manually. ❋ Unknown (2000)
We're talking -- pardon me, about 9,000 so-called undervotes from Miami-Dade County, which you recall, will trucked up the Florida Turnpike on a Ryder truck this past week. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Supreme Court to stop all continued hand counts of that so - called undervotes in the state of Florida. ❋ Unknown (2000)
If I had to do it all over again, I think we would have just pulled aside the undervotes, that is the votes that were not counted by the machine count, and try to go through those and try and make some determination as to how many of thoughts votes we could count. ❋ Unknown (2000)
O'CONNOR: Yes, he is, and you know, he's going to his ranch this afternoon, but another important point, Natalie, that the Bush campaign is wanting to point out on the so-called undervotes and they've been actually sending out e-mails on the subject just as the Gore campaign, you know, sends out e-mails on the facts they want presented. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The nine justices will determine whether so-called undervotes will be tallied in Florida. ❋ Unknown (2000)
TERRELL: And was Judge King making this statement with respect to the Democrats attempt to get only a partial manual recount, that is of 10,750 so-called undervotes? ❋ Unknown (2000)
Back there behind these people who are standing in the way here, the Fort Lauderdale and Broward county elections officials are about to start holding up approximately 6,000 so-called undervotes, in which there was no vote recorded for president. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Those are the 9,000 so - called undervotes from Miami-Dade County. ❋ Unknown (2000)
BOIES: No. That is a result of adding the so-called undervotes that were mentioned and the so-called overvotes that were mentioned. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Canvassing boards across the state of Florida have about 27 hours now to complete a hand count of so-called undervotes following yesterday's bombshell decision from the Florida State Supreme Court to review at least 43,000 ballots that could not be counted by machine. ❋ Unknown (2000)
COFFEY: Well, I think if that is what can be done, in the discretion of the canvassing board, then I think all of us should know that the undervotes are the key votes, in the sense that that's what the machines have been kicking out. ❋ Unknown (2000)
A 4-3 decision yesterday by the Florida Supreme Court requires counties to manually inspect all the so-called undervotes, which are ballots that voting machines did not count. ❋ Unknown (2000)
And the process is a manual process, whereby the teams put the cards into the sorter, and the computer operates it, and when an undervotes is identified, the machine stops, and the operator then must take the card out physically and put it into a what was in a envelope that was marked by precinct, and the process would continue until the possible 750,000 so-called undervotes were then identified. ❋ Unknown (2000)
There were ten people running for five City Council [at-large] seats, but I only cared about electing two. Because this was an undervote, the [voting machine] kept flashing a red light in that section of the [ballot], but I didn't choose any more names. ❋ Grinning Cat (2008)
