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Article: Election officials, vendors cozy
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- Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
- Article date:
- August 18, 2007
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SACRAMENTO - When Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified touch-
screen voting systems earlier this month, county election officials
and voting machine manufacturers denounced the decision with such a
singular voice that it has alarmed some voter rights groups.
Specifically, they are again questioning whether elections
officials' primary concern is really the voters or the vendors with
whom election officials have developed a cozy relationship and have
come to depend on to make their jobs easier.
Critics insist that election officials have become blinded in
their attachment to the touch-screen systems - in part because they
love the quick, seemingly clean results, but also out of loyalty ...