" A hand count of ballots in 33 Nebraska voting precincts that use optical-scanning equipment found errors in only three.
Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale ordered an audit of the November 2010 general election results from randomly selected precincts. More than 7,800 ballots were hand-counted in a U.S. House of Representatives election, a community college race and a county race.
Gale says the audit found errors in three precincts. In each case, a discrepancy was discovered in one race, on one ballot. Gale said Tuesday the review confirms that state vote-counting technology has a "minuscule error rate."
Votes on races in 2 of the precincts were marked too lightly for the machines to count. In a third precinct, one ballot should have been rejected because it wasn't initialed by officials."
http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=14076365
Commenting is not available for this article.It is good to see election officials double-check their election results for any errors that may have occurred.
Related information:
Electronic Justice Foundation: Electronic Voting Equipment Problems Tabulated By State And County Table 22: Nebraska counties where problems with electronic voting have been reported
Thanks to Voting News.
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