New York City Still Tallying Votes | The Trail | washingtonpost.com 

By Robin Shulman
NEW YORK — It’s been 15 days since Super Tuesday, but New York City is still waiting to find out if Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton won the most-contested areas.

The Board of Elections has acknowledged that errors in reporting the election day tallies made it appear that Obama had received not a single vote in 55 election districts, when in reality his votes had simply not been counted, said Valerie Vazquez-Rivera, a spokeswoman for the board. In another 27 districts, Obama actually received no votes, she said.

Vazquez-Rivera attributed the discrepancies to human error as exhausted inspectors rushed to copy columns of numbers to be delivered to the police and then to the press.

“People have been working 16 and 17 hour days,” she said. “There were instances where they just left the Obama field blank.”

But Tuesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, described the results as “fraud.”

“If you want to call it significant undercounting, I guess that’s a euphemism for fraud,” the mayor said.

No election districts reported that Clinton received no votes.

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