July 30, 2004

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  Florida chases election data

  
  

  By Bob Mahlburg | Tallahassee Bureau
  Posted July 29, 2004

  
  

  TALLAHASSEE — In the latest blow to Florida’s increasingly embattled election system, state and local officials scrambled Wednesday to try to salvage election records wiped out during a computer crash in the state’s biggest county.
  
  Secretary of State Glenda Hood sent an investigator to Miami-Dade County, and county election officials brought in a university consultant to try to figure out what went wrong when records of the 2002 Democratic primary vote for governor vanished last year.

  
  

  Amid the latest flap, Gov. Jeb Bush dispatched his own press secretary, Alia Faraj, to head public relations for the elections office.

  
  

  ACLU of Florida Executive Director Howard Simon said there’s also another reason to be upset about losing records of the tight 2002 Democratic vote — it may hold clues to why some votes seemed to disappear.
  

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