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Article: Rush is on for paper ballots; Officials fear electronic voting machines are vulnerable to tampering.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Byline: GEORGE MERRITT - Associated Press
DENVER - With the presidential race in full swing, some states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to the paper ballots they abandoned after the Florida debacle of 2000.
In December alone, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado declared that widely used voting equipment is unfit for elections.
"Every system that is out there, one state or another has found that they are no good," said John Gideon of the advocacy group Voters Unite. "Everybody is starting to look at this now and starting to realize that ...