"In Volusia, Socialist Workers Party candidate James E. Harris got 9,888 votes on the first count, but his tally dwindled to 8 on the recount. And according to CNN, other third party candidates got another 9,000 votes in the county in the first count. Democratic Party officials say a computer error may have caused the outsized vote for minor candidates. On Election Night, Democrats complained that Gore's vote total dipped a mysterious 10,000 votes in the middle of the vote counting. Republicans also charged fraud in Volusia, and for a time yellow police tape closed the county's elections office."