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Article: State orders 1.6M paper ballots
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2006
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BALTIMORE - Diebold Election Systems Inc., the company that
manufactures Maryland's electronic voting machines, is scrambling to
print 1.6 million paper ballots for next month's general election
amid worries by some that the machines could suffer the same problems
as in September's primary.
The state has ordered the paper ballots, about one for every two
registered voters, for possible use on Nov. 7. A spokeswoman told The
(Baltimore) Sun yesterday that it had not expected such a large order
and delivery for some will be delayed a week.
At least 66,000 of those paper ballots will be mailed to voters as
absentee ballots. The rest will be available as provisional ballots,
which were used last ...