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23. MD: Study a boost for paper ballots


Study a boost for paper ballots

Report casts doubt on voting machines

09/29/05

By KAUKAB JHUMRA SMITH
Capital News Service

A federal election reform committee, headed by former President Carter, recommends that voting machines issue a paper ballot.
Maryland advocates of paper records for electronic voting machines are renewing their cause after a report last week from a panel headed by former President Carter recommended that the machines issue paper ballot records to alleviate security issues.

Critics of the Maryland State Board of Elections were buoyed by federal election reform recommendations released this week by the Carter-Baker commission - named for its leaders, Carter, and former Secretary of State James Baker III - and by the unexpected softening of two former opponents toward voter-verified paper records.

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