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Article: Backup paper ballots ordered: State seeks to avoid touch-screen problems that marred primary.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2006
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Byline: Melissa Harris
Oct. 12--Maryland has ordered 1.6 million paper ballots -- about one for every two registered voters -- for possible use next month during an Election Day that critics fear could suffer from some of the same errors that snarled the start of the September primary. The company printing the ballots is the same one that manufactures the state's much-maligned touch-screen voting system, Diebold Election Systems Inc. A spokeswoman for the company said yesterday that it had not expected so large an order and that delivery of some ballots will be delayed a week. A portion of the 1.6 million ballots -- at least 66,000 and probably many more ...
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