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Publish Date: 10/8/2005

County voting faces more woes

Equipment has trouble reading folded ballots

By Brad Turner
The Daily Times-Call

BOULDER — Despite assurances that Boulder County’s $1.4 million ballot-counting system would operate smoothly in the upcoming election, the equipment will not be trusted to properly read ballots where a fold passes through a ballot item, elections officials said Friday.

Election workers discovered the glitch Thursday while running 429 ballots through Hart
InterCivic scanners during a test, elections coordinator Josh Liss said Friday.

“Depending on how the ballot is folded, if the fold crosses an option box, it’s possible the machine could misread it,” he said. “I don’t think it’ll affect many votes.”

Folds running through ballot items caused the scanners to misread seven of the 429 test ballots incorrectly, he said.

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