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Pennsylvania Sued Over Electronic Voting Machines

An AP newswire article by Patrick Walters, via The Washington Post, reports that:

Voter advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop Pennsylvania counties from using "paperless" electronic voting machines, saying that such systems leave no paper record that could be used in the event of a recount, audit or other problem.

The suit asks the state's Commonwealth Court to decertify machines used in 58 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. The other counties use optical scanning systems, in which voters fill in bubbles on paper forms that are counted in scanning machines; the plaintiffs say such systems should be in use statewide.

posted by Fergie @ 8/16/2006 10:04:00 AM