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Elections report bunkum?
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2007-08-06 17:38An elections director says a recent report is bunkum.
The report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University noted in an appendix that there were problems with votes in a 2004 election in Buncombe County.
Citing an article in the alt-weekly Mountain XPress, the report says:
Touch-screen voting machines in at least two precincts did not display one of the races on the ballot. One election official estimated that the error affected at least 600 voters. Because there was no paper record, it was impossible to determine how many votes were lost.
But elections director Trena Parker said that the fault lay not with the Sequoia voting machines, but with the poll workers, who gave voters the wrong ballot, affecting a local school board race.
"There was no problem whatsoever with the machines," she said.
After using the touch-screen machines for nine years, the county replaced them when they were invalidated in 2006. Buncombe now uses optical-scan ballots from ES&S.
(Read the original post here.)
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