overvoting

A new Florida law remedies the problem by making "overvoting" - the greatest source of any disparity - impossible.

This may seem a reasonable claim of overvoting - outside Puerto Rico.

An errant pen stroke picked up by the scanner makes it appear the voter chose too many candidates, called overvoting.

“Lost votes due to overvoting occurred far more frequently in areas with higher populations of low-income residents, people of color and immigrants,” the report said.

"The comment from Theresa LePore was that, historically, there is always a lot of overvoting and it would not make much of a difference in my race," Mr. Levine said.

The election on June 12, 2009 was reported by government authorities as a victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incumbent candidate, although this is greatly disputed by supporters of rival candidates, who noted the statistical anomalies in voting reports and large-scale overvoting in the officially announced tallies.