new voting machines to be purchased...reason for less voting places

[greenbriar]

all makes sense now...

Could tabulator simplify voting?
BY BRENT D. WISTROM
The Wichita Eagle
To deal with widespread concerns that recent polling place consolidations will lead to long lines and discouraged voters, the Sedgwick County Election Office this week will ask county commissioners to buy 60 new vote-counting machines.

The machines, which have been criticized in some other states' elections, will tabulate ballots that voters can complete with pen and paper. The machines the county bought last year -- to comply with new federal voting laws -- allowed people to vote on-screen.

Election Commissioner Bill Gale said the vote-counters, about the size of a small copy machine, will allow several voters to fill out paper ballots at once, serving more voters in less time than the other voting machines.

Voters will darken small bubbles next to the names of their chosen candidates. Then each voter will feed theballot into the machine as if putting a sheet of paper into a fax machine.

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[SidDithers]

1. less .... fewer...

sorry to shit on your post, but "less" used in place of "fewer" just makes my teeth hurt every time I see it.

Thanks for posting the article. :)

Sid

[greenbriar]

2. yes, but I ran out of room to post it

gotta think outside the box :_)

[greenbriar]

4. you stopped the post???

thanks ;)

[greenbriar]

3. is this diebold

are all machines bad?