[lit-ideas] voting
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:45:13 EST
_Click here: Polling places turn to paper ballots after glitches - CNN.com_
(http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html)
There's just no excuse -- did Dubbya and his team build the Diebolds?
(betcha)
AP) -- Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting
machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts early Tuesday,
delaying voters in Indiana, Ohio and Florida and leaving some with little
choice
but to use paper ballots instead.
In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new
touchscreen machines that they couldn't get to start properly until about 10
minutes after polls opened.
"We got five machines -- one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank,
a troubleshooter from the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board.
In Indiana's Marion County, about 175 of 914 precincts turned to paper
ballots because poll workers didn't know how to run the machines, said Marion
County Clerk Doris Ann Sadler. She said it could take most of the day to fix
all
of the machine-related issues.
Election officials in Delaware County, Indiana, extended voting hours because
voters initially couldn't cast ballots in 75 precincts. County Clerk Karen
Wenger said the cards that activate the push-button machines were programmed
incorrectly but the problems were fixed by late morning.
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