There is not even an accumulated total. Officials in two counties with high drop-off rates were insistent that no mistakes have been made. Dixie County, Fla., reported that 4,690 voters went to the polls in 1996 but only 3,805 votes were counted in the presidential race. Nearly 20 percent of the voters did not seem to cast a ballot for president. I don't see no problem.
Nothing is wrong here.
Maybe they voted for more than one person for president and so that race was not counted. But we can't determine that from how the machine counts the votes. Seventeen percent of the voters in Wheeler County, Ga., apparently did not cast a ballot for president. We had some local candidates in 1996 and that might have meant that folks voted for them and didn't vote for president. Every year hundreds of thousands of votes are disqualified because voters apparently have selected more than one candidate in the same race.