Maryland oders paper ballots as Diebold backup

[Stinky The Clown]

Blue Maryland is saddled with Diebold paperless voting scam machines. The Republic givernor and the Democratic state House voted to do something about them. Our illustrious Senate, however, just sat on the bill. Even our nazi governor, Bob Ehrlich was calling for the measure!

Meanwhile, Democrat Linda Lamone, the person responsible for the scourge being wrought on our voting system, stands tall as she imitates Alfred E. Newman.

Backup paper ballots ordered

Maryland has ordered 1.6 million paper ballots -- about one for every two registered voters -- for possible use next month during an Election Day that critics fear could suffer from some of the same errors that snarled the start of the September primary.

The company printing the ballots is the same one that manufactures the state's much-maligned touch-screen voting system, Diebold Election Systems Inc. A spokeswoman for the company said Wednesday that it had not expected so large an order and that delivery of some ballots will be delayed a week.


A portion of the 1.6 million ballots -- at least 66,000 and probably many more -- will be mailed to voters as absentee ballots. The rest will be available as provisional ballots, the Election Day backups that were relied upon so heavily during the September primary that some precincts ran out.

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and others are urging voters who are troubled by electronic machines to use absentee ballots as an alternative next month, fueling demand and increasing the workload of local elections officials.

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From today's Baltimore Sun .... more here

[Stinky The Clown]

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