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Article: Wyoming holds on to paper ballots
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 21, 2005
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Wyoming County will continue to use paper ballots after Jan. 1
while half of West Virginia's other counties will use electronic
touch screen voting machines and half will use optical scan ballots.
Counties had until Saturday to decide which kind of voting
machines they want.
The federal Help America Vote Act requires each polling place to
have one handicapped accessible voting machine by Jan. 1. Congress
also required counties that use punch card or lever voting machines
to replace them by Jan. 1 or conduct expensive voter education
programs.
Of the other nine West Virginia counties that now use paper