Paper jams cause voting problems

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on January 2, 2008 - 8:28am.
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Some voting equipment in North Carolina doesn't work well.

The state required paper ballots after a loss of 4,400 votes in Carteret County in 2004. In some cases, counties use hand-marked ballots, but in others they use touch-screen machines with a paper roll similar to a cash-register tape.

But the paper rolls have a tendency to get jammed.

In Guilford County, nine percent of the machines had a paper jam in 2006. Mecklenburg County officials estimated they had 50 or 60 jams.

"It's definitely not as reliable as your cash register tape or your ATM machine," said Joyce McCloy, founder of the N.C. Coalition for Verified Voting. (Char-O)

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