Touch - screen machines in Sarasota, Florida, recorded an 18,000 -
vote undercount in a congressional race decided by fewer than 400 votes.
Also, there are a lot of machine - reading issues where many
votes are not counted at all that should have been («
undercounts») where examination of the ballot can show clear intent, or, if there was a machine tabulation error, that machine tabulation error would not affect a human being.