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August 01, 2005

"Utah stands by vote machines"

"While California officials have rejected Diebold's electronic voting machines as too unreliable, Utah officials say they will stand by their $27 million decision to use the machines.

After a mock election last week, California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson told the Oakland Tribune the voting machines had about a 10 percent failure rate.

"That's not good enough for the voters of California, and that's not good enough for me," he said.

McPherson said the machines' printers jammed and screens froze too often to be reliable in an actual election, but a Diebold spokesman has said the company will fix the problems."

The full article is here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at August 1, 2005 08:23 AM