Reply #10: NC: Buncombe County deciding how to handle paper [View All]

[Wilms]

AP State News

October 19. 2005 12:08AM

Buncombe County deciding how to handle paper record of votes

The Associated Press

The Buncombe County elections director said she's not sure the county will be able to retrofit its 500 voting machines to generate a paper record of each ballot that the voter can see or if it will need to buy new machines.

Elections Director Trena Parker told county commissioners Tuesday that the equipment must be operating correctly in time for the May 2006 primary elections. Counties plan to select machines to purchase by January, she said.

"It's a tight schedule as you can see," Parker said. "It's going to be a very busy December."

Legislators approved a law this year requiring a paper record of each vote after problems in Carteret County when an electronic voting machine lost more than 4,400 votes in last year's election.

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