More than 4,500 North Carolina votes lost

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/2004-11-04-votes-lost_x.htm

More than 4,500 North Carolina votes lost because of mistake in voting machine capacity

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.

Officials said UniLect Corp., the maker of the county's electronic voting system, told them that each storage unit could handle 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes.

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Officials said 3,005 early votes were stored, but 4,530 were lost.

Jack Gerbel, president and owner of Dublin, Calif.-based UniLect, said Thursday that the county's elections board was given incorrect information. There is no way to retrieve the missing data, he said.

"That is the situation and it's definitely terrible," he said.

I don't have to click on the link to realize that.

have been lost or uncounted or miscounted or otherwise not handled properly? Just thinking back over the past few days I figure it has to be better than 100,000 nationwide. Anyone with any more concrete numbers?

dated Nov. 4th. duplicate