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(From a previous thread)

Crunch time arrives for voting machines (ES&S)
http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=137310&format=html
Thursday May 4, 2006

by ROBERT SNYDER [e-mail]

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Despite assurances that Berkeley County's new electronic voting machines would be available in time for next week's primary election, continuing problems are casting the machines' readiness in doubt, a county elections official said Wednesday.

Berkeley County Voter Registration and Elections Supervisor Bonnie Woodfall said that the county's store of touch-screen voting machines, of which one was to be placed in each of the county's 65 precincts, have not been able to be successfully tested.

"We're having a few problems," Woodfall said of efforts to test the machines this week.

Woodfall said two components of the touch-screen machines that prevented their being used at the start of early voting- a prepared election ballot cassette and a flash card which is mounted to the top of the machines- have been programmed and installed, but problems persist in being able to score vote tallies from the machines during testing.