Miami-Dade County elections officials said Friday that they have found detailed electronic voting records from the 2002 gubernatorial primary that were originally believed lost in computer crashes last year. "The data has been located on a compact disc that was in the files of the election office," said Seth Kaplan, spokesman for the office of Supervisor Constance Kaplan. "We are very pleased." | "It was under a removeable hard drive marked "Property of Los Alamos" |
When the loss was initially reported this week, state officials had stressed that no votes were lost in the actual election. The record of those votes had been believed lost during the crashes in May and November of 2003. Seth Kaplan said that backup disc was likely lost due to transition in the office within the past year. Constance Kaplan took over as elections supervisor in July 2003. | Seth Kaplan, spokesman for Constance Kaplan. Nice to see some things never change. |
County officials had said they did not have a backup system in place until December. A team from the Division of Elections was brought down to Miami earlier this week to work with local officials to see what happened and whether the information was retrievable. | I mean, if you can't trust data on a CD you found in filing cabinet..... |
| The tempest is over. The teapot is calm again. |
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