CT: Supposed state requirement for voting machines never existed

[Wilms]

Supposed state requirement for voting machines never existed

By SUSAN HAIGH
Associated Press Writer

January 13, 2006, 5:38 PM EST

HARTFORD, Conn. -- After being forced to scrap plans to buy thousands of new high-tech voting machines because no company could meet Connecticut's requirements, state officials revealed Friday that one of those requirements never existed in state law.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said there is nothing in state statutes or regulations that require a voting machine to show a full ballot on the screen.

"It has never appeared in our law," he said. "There's no provision in the statutes or regulations that a full-faced ballot be part of voting machines."

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said her office started to wonder about the requirement after so few voting machine companies could produce a machine that could show voters the entire election ballot, as well as meet other requirements.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--votingmachines0113jan13,0,6497417.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut

[Wilms]

1. Any guesses as to what this is about?

Whatever...it seems to have prevented, in the short term, the "Invasion of the DRE's".



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