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Voting machines could bring Election Day glitches

 

Published 10/30/2008 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) — Eight years after Florida's hanging chads exasperated voters and helped usher in sweeping changes in voting technology, many election observers remain concerned about the accuracy of the electronic voting systems most Americans will use November 4. Touch-screen machines can occasionally fail or register votes for unintended candidates. Optical-scan systems can have trouble reading paper [...] (link)

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