Balt Sun: Voting machine maker says new system doable by fall

By Kelly Brewington -- Baltimore Sun reporter
Originally published February 18, 2006

Although the state's elections chief said this week that installing a new voting system to satisfy a legislative proposal would be impossible by this fall's elections, a manufacturer of voting machines said yesterday that the company could provide appropriate equipment in time.

Linda H. Lamone, Maryland's elections administrator, said at a Senate hearing Thursday that a bill to require a voter-verified paper ballot would require abandoning the state's touch-screen voting system and that a manufacturer is no longer taking contracts to provide equipment by this fall.

But yesterday, a salesperson for that company said it could implement a new system if the state asked for it soon. The company's spokesman also said that it has not stopped accepting contracts to set up the optical-scan system that produces paper receipts for this fall's election.

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The cost per registered voter in OR (who votes by mail) is far less than (rigged/hackable)voting machines and their maintenance, of any type, on the market!
Wherever they use these machines it is advised for the voter to request absentee ballot and do it right!

and a pen? Counted at the precinct level with representatives of all political parties as observers? Nah, too open and honest.

he shouldn't have won last time