AZ could join fight over touch screen voting

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AZ: Next Battleground Over Touchscreen Voting Machines?
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Arizona could join the fight over touch-screen voting machines


PHOENIX Arizona may have a hard time meeting a federal law requiring every precinct to have at least one machine allowing citizens with disabilities to vote without assistance by the September 12th primary.

The non-profit advocacy group Voter Action is ready to pick a legal fight with Arizona over some of the more than 21-hundred touch-screen machines the state is ordering.

The state needs to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act.

Voter Action asserts that two of the most popular models of touch-screens coming to Arizona are unreliable and vulnerable to tampering.

The group also distrusts the machines because they do not produce a marked paper ballot.

Activists claim paper ballots read by optical scanners are less subject to technical manipulation or fraud and easily can be recounted or audited in the case of a contested election.

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Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com


and California is filing a lawsuit to stop the purchase of these machines. As you remember Jan Brewer bought a slug of these machines a while back... January or December?