Election Reform, Fraud and Related News. Sunday 01/27/08

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TALLYING BALLOTS: Electronic polling machines rely on computer memory to store votes

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • January 27, 2008

TRENTON — With no paper trail to document their votes, the bulk of New Jersey residents will place their faith in technology as they choose presidential candidates in the Feb. 5 primaries.

New Jersey's polling places are run on more than 10,000 electronic, push-button machines. Voters press buttons to cast votes stored on the computers' memory. In most cases, voters are not able to check paper receipts to verify the computers are properly recording their choices.

"You don't know if they're really working. You don't know if the right people are getting votes," said Penny Venetis, a clinical law professor at Rutgers School of Law in Newark who is representing voting rights groups that have sued the state over the machines.

New Jersey's voting machines were supposed to have voter-verified paper receipts by now, under a Legislature-imposed deadline. But lawmakers extended the deadline six months after New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers found flaws in paper printers for the machines.

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