http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54432-2003Nov17.htmlFairfax To Probe Voting Machines
By David Cho and Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 18, 2003; Page B01
Democrats in Fairfax County joined Republicans yesterday in criticizing the performance of the county's costly new high-tech voting system, saying that it may have disenfranchised voters in the Nov. 4 election.
The Democrat-led board of supervisors scolded the county board of elections for minimizing problems with the touch-screen machines that the county purchased this year for $3.5 million and asked County Executive Anthony H. Griffin to investigate what went wrong before the machines are pressed into service again in February for the Democratic presidential primary.
Fairfax's 1,000 touch-screen voting machines, which resemble laptop computers without keyboards, were supposed to simplify voting and tabulating results. But in a debut that mirrored many of the problems experienced last year in Montgomery County, some voters found the machines confusing, and the reporting of vote tallies was delayed almost a day.
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This is really cool...
As is this
Electronic Voting Debacle
By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34051.html******
Onwards & upwards...