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Article: Critics question election officials links to vendors
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 19, 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 unanimous voice that it has alarmed some voter rights
groups.
Specifically, they are again questioning whether election
officials primary concern is really the voters or the vendors with
whom 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