DAVID DAMRON/ORLANDO SENTINELThis Lake County Bush voter lost their presidential franchise when they made a religious statement in the write-in spot on the ballot. The "J" in Jesus crossed through the write-in oval, which resulted in this ballot being tossed out as an overvote.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELA Sentinel reporter tallies overvotes during the ballot review in Taylor County. Detailed information on more than 15,000 discarded ballots was gathered and entered in the newspaper's computer database for analysis.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELThe voter who cast this Bradford County presidential ballot for both George W. Bush and Howard Phillips apparently was confused by a ballot design that broke the list of presidential candidates into two columns. The review found thousands of similar ballots that were thrown out as double votes.
DAVID DAMRON/ORLANDO SENTINELThis Lake County voter marked in a vote for Al Gore at the top of the ballot, then went down below and possibly tried to reaffirm that same vote on the write-in slot. But instead of writing in Gore's vice presidential running mate, Joe Lieberman, they apparently wrote in Libertarian, thus confusing their intentions.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELThis Bradford County ballot shows a voter's attempt to erase a vote for Bush. A counting machine still detected the erased vote, and this ballot, like hundreds of others with erasures in the Sentinel review, was discarded.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELThis Taylor County ballot is typical of many on which voters made indicipherable marks in an attempt to clarify their votes. All were thrown out.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELTaylor County deputy Dewayne Bowden moves ballots with Taylor County Supervisor of Elections Molly Henry Lilliott, during ballot reviews in Perry at the Taylor County Courthouse on Jan. 11, 2001
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELA typical overvote ballot in Lafayette County. Some county canvassing boards would accept this as a vote for Bush, while others discarded such ballots. The Sentinel review that tallied hundreds of uncounted votes for Bush and Gore did not include these types of ballots.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELA voter's attempt to correct a ballot mistake in Bradford County. The ballot was discarded as an overvote.
DAVID DAMRON/ORLANDO SENTINELNo voters in the 15 counties the Sentinel looked at were supplied with erasers. But that didn't stop them from trying to erase overvotes. This erasure ended up throwing this vote out in Lake County.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELAn overvote ballot with some additional scribblings as seen in the ballot review in Starke on Jan. 10, 2001.
JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINELDBallot review project: Bradford County. Deputy Supervisor of Elections Carol Milner displays a ballot to Orlando Sentinel reporters Debbie Salamone Wickham (right) and David Damron, during the ballot review in Starke on Jan. 10, 2001.
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This Lake County Bush voter lost their presidential franchise when they made a religious statement in the write-in spot on the ballot. The "J" in Jesus crossed through the write-in oval, which resulted in this ballot being tossed out as an overvote.
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coverage of the effort to re-examine the 2000 presidential vote count, as well as other news stories related to this extraordinary event in our nation’s history.
