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Review: Visitors, dead man cast ballots
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© St. Petersburg Times, published December 25, 2000
MIAMI -- A partial inspection of presidential ballots in Miami-Dade County found that at least one dead man voted and more than 100 ballots were illegal, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Poll workers allowed out-of-state residents to vote Nov. 7, and someone cast a vote in the name of a man who died in 1997, according to an examination of the ballots by the Miami Herald.
The Herald examined ballots cast at 138 of Miami-Dade's 617 precincts and found that 144 ineligible voters were allowed to vote in the election last month.
If those numbers were to remain consistent throughout the county, hundreds of illegal votes may have been cast, the newspaper concluded.
Poll workers said they were overwhelmed by the huge voter turnout on Election Day and frustrated by busy signals from the state's Division of Elections hotline when trying to verify voter records.
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