Fox news!! MD election officials fear shortage of absentee ballots

[Amaryllis]

It's finally bad enough that even Faux is covering it...
What a coincidence that Diebold is printing the ballots that are late..

Maryland Elections Officials Fear Shortage of Absentee Ballots
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

By Megha Rajagopalan

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As Maryland's leading politicians urge voters to request absentee ballots instead of going to the polls, local elections officials are contending with a predictable flood of requests for absentee ballots.

But the absentee ballots being requested haven't yet arrived from the printer, and local officials worry that they won't have time to get a ballot to every voter who wants one. The firm that is printing the ballots says they will be delivered on schedule and that local officials have no reason to worry.

Absentee ballots are being requested in large numbers from voters who say they are concerned electronic voting machines built by Diebold Elections Systems Inc. are unreliable.c

State law does not specify the number of days before an election absentee ballots should arrive at local election boards. But local elections officials complain the ballots are unusually late, a troubling setback in a year that has brought a barrage of applications for absentee ballots.

More: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,219977,00.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. yeah right, fear it as in they didn't print enough of them to begin

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