Officials in Florida are planning to begin testing touch-screen voting machines in Sarasota County today to determine if the system failed during the recent election. More than 18,000 people in the county went to the polls on Election Day but failed to cast a vote in the highly contested congressional race between Democrat Christine Jennings and Republican Vern Buchanan. The undercount was far higher in Sarasota County than in neighboring areas. According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, if the missing votes had broken for Jennings by the same percentage as the counted votes in the county, the Democrat would have won the race by about 600 votes instead of losing by 368. Christine Jennings is contesting the election result.