BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ --

     When:   Thursday, November 18, 2004, 10:00 a.m. PST

     Where:  UC Berkeley campus, Survey Research Center Conference Room --
     2538 Channing Way (intersection of Channing/Bowditch). Parking on Durant
     near Telegraph.

     What:  A research team at UC Berkeley will report that irregularities
     associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded
     130,000 - 260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in
     Florida in the 2004 presidential election. The study shows an unexplained
     discrepancy between votes for President Bush in counties where electronic
     voting machines were used versus counties using traditional voting
     methods. Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise by chance -- the
     probability is less than 0.1 percent. The research team, led by Professor
     Michael Hout, will formally disclose results of the study at the press
     conference.