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IDAHO COUNTY ASKING DISABLED VOTERS TO LIMIT TOUCH-SCREEN BALLOTS (AUTOMARK)
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/10/2006 - 10:09am.
Monday Nov 6, 2006
http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=37575
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- County officials in eastern Idaho are asking disabled voters to use traditional punch card ballots if they can tomorrow, to avoid time-consuming tabulation required for new electronic touch-screen voting machines.
Bonneville County Election Officer Bobbie Jockumsen says because the county has not purchased a 60-thousand-dollar scanner to tabulate votes cast with the new AutoMark voting machines, those ballots must be counted by hand tomorrow night.
During May's primary, county election officials worked until 4:30 in the morning hand-counting ballots from the AutoMark machines. Jockumsen says the county is not discouraging people from using the AutoMarks, but election judges will not be encouraging voters to use them tomorrow.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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