Original sentence: A Global Election Systems (GES, now Diebold Election Systems) voting machine showed that 412 of those registered voters had voted.The problem was that the machine also claimed those 412 voters had somehow given Bush 2,813 votes and in addition had given Gore a negative vote count of -16,022 votes (Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was shown to have an even larger negative vote, though he was not considered a likely winner of the whole Florida election)
Edited sentence: A Global Election Systems (GES, now Diebold Election Systems) voting machine showed that 412 of those registered voters had voted (a perfectly reasonable number).The problem was that the machine also claimed those 412 voters had somehow given Bush 2,813 votes and more impressively had given Gore a negative vote count of -16,022 votes (Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was shown to have an even larger negative vote, though he was not considered a likely winner of the whole Florida election)