Reply #4: Coles County Election Problems

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Posted: March 21, 2006

A problem they have faced is with the new optical scan voting equipment.

Earlier this year the State of Illinois passed a law requiring every polling location to offer the use of an Optical Scan voting machine primarily to aid the visually impaired in the ballot process.

One election judge says the machines did not operate properly anywhere in Coles County.

Both Ashmore and St. Charles Catholic Church problems came with loading the paper into the printer of the machines.

But while an engineer hurries from precinct to precinct in an attempt to fix the new technology Election Judge Mary Shoot says the overall voter turn out should not be affected

http://www.weiu.net/news/archive/newsbuilder/2006/march/0321/coleselection.htm