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[Melissa G]

Clark hustling to ease concerns over voting machines


Saturday, August 6, 2005 5:28 PM CDT



JACKSON (AP) - The secretary of state's office says 20 counties have signed up to obtain the new touch-screen voting machine system.

No counties had opted out of the statewide program by Friday, said David Blount, spokesman for the secretary of state's office.

Counties have until Aug. 19 to notify the secretary of state's office of whether they will be part of state's purchase of about 5,000 voting machines from Diebold Election Systems.

As of Friday, the counties that have joined in the program were Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Covington, Itawamba, Kemper, Leake, Lincoln, Newton, Quitman, Smith, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tishomingo, Wayne, Webster, Winston and Yazoo.


Secretary of State Eric Clark has been hustling since June to sell the program, ease concerns some have about the company he selected and counter a public relations effort by rivals to sell their systems to the counties.

http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/08/06/news/10machines.txt