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Article: EDITORIAL: Paper ballots may still count: Programming delays raise issues of their own in upcoming election.
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- The Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV)
- Article date:
- April 17, 2006
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Apr. 17--Given everything we already know about elections, this still made headlines.
Several counties, including Monongalia and Preston, may be forced to start early voting next week using paper ballots because of delays in programming the state's new touchscreen voting machines.
Sure, most of us know all about glitches, bugs and ghosts in the machine. But this apparently is simply a case of being backlogged.
What's particularly startling about this turn of events, though, is that the state contracted with Election Systems & Software in September 2005 to provide these machines, mandated by the federal Help America Voting Act. ES&S has the ...