Unilect Tossed out of Carteret County NC - finally!

It is about time. It seems that while the Unilect machine lost over 4,400 votes at the one stop voting, they also had a high undervote in several precincts ( http://www.ncvoter.net/Unilect.html )

Carteret tosses voting system
July 14,2005
JANETTE PIPPIN
DAILY NEWS STAFF
BY JANNETTE PIPPIN

BEAUFORT - The Carteret County Board of Elections has notified county and state officials that it no longer plans to use the county's electronic voting system and alternate plans for voting machines need to be made before the upcoming municipal elections.

Board of Elections Chairman Ed Pond said the board met this week and agreed that the county will no longer use the Patriot Electronic Voting System it purchased from California-based UniLect Corp. nearly 10 years ago. The UniLect system has been in question in Carteret County since the November 2004 election, when 4,438 votes were permanently lost because of a mishap over the storage capacity of a control unit used during the early voting period.

"We don't want the citizens of Carteret County to face another election with the uncertainty of their vote not being counted," Pond said....
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http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=33486&Section=News

or http://tinyurl.com/8kjyc

This came about after some citizens in Carteret formed their own coalition, with a republican and a democrat heading it, and they worked on local officials to take the Unilect out of service before the upcoming municipal elections.

*Note, the NC State Board of Elections had taken no steps whatsoever to re-examine the machines or decertify them. Burke County residents will continue to use their Unilects, although I have tried and tried to warn them. They just don't get it.