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Article: INTEGRITY OF `PAPERLESS' VOTING AT ISSUE VANDERBURGH COUNTY TO DEBUT TOUCH-SCREEN BALLOTING IN MAY PRIMARY
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2004
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Concern that new paperless voting technology could sabotage
elections this year is surfacing across the United States in
newspaper columns, Internet sites and among some members of Congress.
States are required to do away with antiquated voting systems such
as punch-card ballots -- which were at the center of the disputed
2000 presidential election in Florida -- by 2006. Vanderburgh County
will debut its new touch-screen equipment in the May 4 primary.
But some fear that computerizing vote tallies means a turn for the
worse, and there have, in fact, been some scattered foul-ups.
In the Broward County, Fla., election last year, no votes showed
up for 134 people who cast ballots in an election ...