Friday, July 15, 2005
Unilect DREs get failing vote from Carteret County, N. Carolina
"It's the election board's opinion that the citizens have suffered a grievous wrong as a result of the use of this (UniLect Patriot) equipment," Board of Elections Chairman Ed Pond states in the letter, July 12th, to the State Board of Elections.
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.
Carteret County is asking for help in additional funding to remedy the situation by renting voting equipment. Under consideration are paper ballots with optical scanning equipment, and alternate DRE rental.
See: http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=33486&Section=News
for more details.
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.
Carteret County is asking for help in additional funding to remedy the situation by renting voting equipment. Under consideration are paper ballots with optical scanning equipment, and alternate DRE rental.
See: http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=33486&Section=News
for more details.
# posted by DRRW @ 12:04 PM 
