But his lawyers discovered errors in vote tabulations.
Things grew worse when he reread his paper, he said, because he discovered errors.
If recounts discovered errors in some localities they, too, would be attributed to programming errors, he said.
Last month, Standard & Poor's acknowledged that it had discovered errors in the models it used to rate the debt obligations as well.
In an interview, Mr. Martinelli said a title company, which he declined to identify, told him that it had discovered errors in the county clerk's records.
Mr. Djoro, who is facing an arson charge in Michigan and has not yet been extradited to New York, was caught after lawyers discovered errors in the affidavit, prosecutors said.
While Mills struggled with the largest project it had ever undertaken, the Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating the company, finding last year that an internal audit had discovered "errors caused by possible misconduct" by former employees.
Even as Bank of America begins to restart foreclosure proceedings in 23 states on Monday, the bank confirmed that it had discovered errors, including incorrect data and misspelled names, in the paperwork it has reviewed.
After completely reviewing just 104,000 loans, consultants discovered errors in roughly 5 percent of the foreclosures, including many smaller problems like excessive fees or failure to provide sufficient notice before an eviction.
But they retracted the paper last year when critics discovered errors that invalidated the results.
