Decision Nears On Whether To Use Touch-Screen Voting

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Registrar: Not Using Them Would Be A "Recipe For Disaster"

POSTED: 4:25 pm PDT April 21, 2004
UPDATED: 4:33 pm PDT April 21, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Touch-screen voting machines were supposed to make voting easy to the touch, but some say they're just troubled technology.

California's touch-screen voting machines were condemned and praised Wednesday as a decision nears on whether the technology should be used for this fall's presidential vote.

"A system that hides our votes in an electronic box and counts them with secret software cannot be trusted," said True Majority spokesman Elliot Hoffman.

"There are a growing number of citizens in this country who are concerned that electronic-voting systems produce results that cannot be verified," said California Voter Foundation spokeswoman Kim Alexander.

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