Reply #16: NC: Printers on county voting machines had failures

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News Record

Friday, December 15, 2006

By Mark Binker
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO -- The system meant to produce a paper backup of votes cast on Guilford County's electronic voting machines failed in many cases during the election Nov. 7.

About 9 percent of the printers attached to the county's voting machines had a jam or other problem. In many cases, that problem made the paper record generated unusable for purposes of a state-mandated audit, according to county elections director George Gilbert. The electronic records were not affected and remained intact, he said.

Guilford County voters cast ballots on direct record, or DRE, systems that have a computer touchscreen. During the past several years, some computer scientists and voting advocates have charged this type of system is susceptible to error and fraud.


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