Since elections are conducted by secret ballot, there is no way to remove ballots by ineligible voters.

They said there was no evidence that the ballots came from ineligible voters or that they did not reflect the will of the voters.

A state analysis suggested that 54 ineligible voters, out of a sample of 58,000, had voted.

However, Johnson has provided details about only two ineligible voters.

By 2004, ineligible voters constituted nearly 10%.

Harris's purge of voters in Florida removed both ineligible and eligible voters.

Amid concerns of removing ineligible voters in such a short time, about 6,000 people were taken off the voting lists.

But given the limited number of ineligible voters uncovered in the newspaper's account, this latest development did not strike some experts as very significant.

Vote re-counts, ineligible voters and other problems could force new elections or change the winner at a dozen or more schools, officials say.

He said Florida has tried three times to create databases of eligible and ineligible voters but each system has had widespread inaccuracies.