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Article: Alexandria to Test Voting Machines; New System Scans Paper Ballots
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- The Washington Post
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- February 15, 1996
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Voters in Tuesday's mayoral election in Alexandria vill be
using new voting machines that replace push-button technology with a
fill-in-the-dots system that might remind some city residents of
school testing forms.
Instead of entering booths to push levers or buttons, voters
will be given paper ballots on which they will fill in ovals next to
their favorite candidate. They will put completed ballots into a
machine that scans the selections and tallies the votes.
The new machines are smaller, cheaper and faster than the old
ones, said Alexandria Elections Administrator Tim Nayak. City
officials decided to use the new devices in the mayoral election
because turnout likely will be ...