PA Counties Said Unprepared to Serve Voters, Meet Court Order for Emergency Paper Ballots

Election Official: '80% of Counties Do Not Have Emergency Ballots'

The directive requires that counties have enough emergency paper ballots (EPBs) on hand at polling places to ensure that voters can vote if half, or more, of a precinct's voting machines break down. County officials admit today that they were completely unprepared for the directive, and even for the likelihood of serious machine failure, despite known problems with the touch-screen voting systems they use, or the extraordinary voter turnout long-predicted ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Election Reform, Pennsylvania
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Oct 31, 2008 - 4:20 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Oct 31, 2008 - 4:20 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 1, 2008

This is good investigative journalism, that hopefully will move election officials to get late paper ballots in place.

This train wreck has been developing for 8 years, and the problems have not been cured. Amazing.

even though the law already says paper ballots may be given out if even one machine breaks down, and even though the machines have broken down historically, and even though ... More »

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