Are there enough voting machines for November elections?

[MonteSano]

In the continued fracas over electronic voting, election administrators across the country headed down to the wire still not sure whether they have enough of the newfangled machines that caused such an uproar in some states in 2004. They also are struggling to train hundreds of new poll workers on the intricacies of using and servicing the electronic devices.

Hampered by last-minute deliveries and a confusing array of new voting rules, election officials said they can only hope they don't face a rerun of 2004 - long poll lines caused by malfunctioning machines, poll workers who didn't understand the machines or didn't show up, and recounts that in some cases took weeks to complete.

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Similar stories have been repeated across the country - but their scope and severity are impossible to determine because there are no federal rules for reporting such problems and there's no repository for keeping them, voting advocates say.

But a study released last week by a coalition of voting-rights groups determined that much of the problem is caused by the failure of many states to mandate how many electronic voting machines must be available at each precinct.


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[Wilms]

1. K & R n/t

[diva77]

2. ...guess you can't have too much of a bad thing.

:grr: