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Article: Md. May Not Count Primary Paper Ballots
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- May 21, 2004
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AP Online
05-21-2004
Dateline: ANNAPOLIS, Md.
About 100 Maryland voters who requested paper ballots for the March primary because they did not trust the state's new touch-screen voting machines may never have their votes counted.
The provisional ballots they filled out during the primary election have been rejected by local elections boards, which concluded the ballots could not be used as an alternative to the machines.
Twenty-one of the disputed ballots came from Howard County, and angry residents there are demanding that the votes be tallied.
"I was not told that my vote would not be counted. That is just plain wrong," one of the voters, Helen K. Kolbe, said at an administrative hearing ...