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...probably 8.5 percent if you count the undervotes [ballots with no candidate selected], because I count the undervotes as a perfectly valid choice,” Carlberg said...
...Carlberg said between 6,000 and 7,000 voters who cast their ballots in Duval County in 2000 did not select a candidate for president. He also said that there were an “unusually high number” of overvotes, or ballots with more than one candidate selected for a single office...
...Carlberg said these overvotes and undervotes may have contributed to Duval County’s ranking. He declined to comment on the report’s finding that race affected ballot spoilage...
While Ancheta acknowledged the merit of both Carlberg and Sullivan’s claims, he said that different methodologies lead to different definitions of spoiled ballots...
...Carlberg also said Duval County voters will cast their vote this November not by punch card, but by manually selecting candidates using a pen. The ballots will then be tabulated using an optical scan system similar to Scantron forms used in exams...