Voting-System Reversal Too Costly for Taxpayers

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › March 17, 2008

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Can lawmakers and state officials please get their act together regarding voting machines? Taxpayers can't afford these reversals.

After the "hanging chad" episode of 2000, the federal government ordered an overhaul of polling equipment. The Help America Vote Act earmarked $3.1 billion for states to update their equipment and procedures.

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Voting-System Reversal Too Costly for Taxpayers

Dubuque County invested in touch-screen, paperless machines. It was in an effort to meet the needs of visually impaired voters. Technology was moving in that dire...

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