[LINK] Us voting machines

[Jan Whitaker]

 From Cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html

(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.
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Jan (from Terre Haute in the Hoosier state where Marion County is the 
location of the state capital, Indianapolis)


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