Ballot Error Effect Cited Orange County registrar says incorrect electronic ballots may have altered a race's outcome, but says results will be certified today. By Jean O. Pasco Times Staff Writer March 30, 2004 Although some Orange County voters cast the wrong electronic ballots in the March 2 primary, potentially altering the outcome of one race for a Democratic Party post, Registrar Steve Rodermund said he will certify the results of the election today. In a report circulated late Monday to the Board of Supervisors, Rodermund acknowledged for the first time that his office's failures could have affected a race and gave ammunition to critics of electronic voting. The report said 33 voters out of 16,655 in the 69th Assembly District received the wrong ballots and were unable to vote for six open seats on the Democratic Central Committee. The candidate who finished seventh in that contest, Art Hoffman, trailed sixth-place candidate Jim Pantone in the final count by 13 votes. However, 99.7% of Orange County ballots were cast properly in the primary, Rodermund will tell supervisors today before certifying the election results to the secretary of state. <snip> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-machines30mar30,1,4776413,pri... Fuck democracy, we've got money to spend!