Reply #16: CT: Hearings To Review Voting Machine Performance [View All]

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Hearings To Review Voting Machine Performance
Lawmakers Want To Hear About Optical Scan Machines

POSTED: 2:26 pm EST January 24, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Lawmakers plan to hold hearings in each of the state's five congressional districts to find out how new voting machines worked in the November election.

Members of the Government Administration and Elections Committee want to hear from voters and local election officials about any problems people might have had with the new machines.

This was the first time new optical scan voting machines and paper ballots were used statewide instead of the old lever machines.

Voters used pens and ballots that resembled standardized high school multiple-choice tests. The ballots were then fed into a scanner, which read and counted votes and deposited the ballots into a secure box.

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