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Nearly five months after Florida Republican Vern Buchanan narrowly defeated Democrat Christine Jennings in the state's 13th District, a congressional committee has organized a task force to investigate the controversial election. California Democratic Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, announced the formation of the task force, which she said was needed to investigate "possible voting rights violations" in Florida's 13th, where Buchanan prevailed by 369 votes. Bandele McQueen, Millender-McDonald's chief of staff, told CQPolitics.com on Friday that illender-McDonald formed the task force after an August 2006 letter surfaced last week in which Electronic Systems & Software Inc. (ES&S) - the company that manufactured the electronic voting machines that were used in the Florida 13 election - told election officials that the voting screens exhibited slow response times during testing.

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