Union County Clerk does not trust voting machines
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October 21, 2008
Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi has dealt with these machines before. After last February's presidential primary, she asked state officials to investigate tallying errors in the Sequoia voting machines. They took no action, and this time around Rajoppi is encouraging county residents to vote absentee.[1]
New Laws
Rajoppi has been reminding voters that the clerk's office would be open Saturday, in order to hand out absentee ballots. Due to new laws, residents do not have to be out of the state in order to vote absentee.[2] She is planning to redeploy her staff in order to deal with the increased volume of paper ballots.
The Sequoia machine do not produce any paper trail, while absentee ballots are read by optical scanners. "If there is any question about the ballot, Rajoppi said, "it can be hand- counted so there is a verifiable record."
See also
References
- ↑ Political Ticker NJ: "Union County Clerk says voting machines are unreliable; encourages voting by mail," Oct 21, 2008
- ↑ Star-Ledger: "Report on voting machines at issue," Oct 7, 2008
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