Reply #15: OH-More voting machine woes in Summit

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Company replaces memory cards

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1144139748213060.xml&coll=2

Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Steve Luttner
Plain Dealer Reporter

Akron- Problems continue with Summit County's new voting machines, which will be used for the first time in the May 2 primary election.

For a fourth time, some of the machines faltered during testing. Summit County Elections Board Director Bryan Williams said 16 memory cards, the battery-powered brains of the machines, had low charges or problems relaying vote totals.

"I'm comfortable and I'm nervous," Williams said when asked if the machines will perform May 2.

Williams said Election Systems and Software (ES&S) of Omaha, Neb., which sold the machines to the Ohio Secretary of State's office, will replace about 350 memory cards manufactured by Vikant Corp. of Long Grove, Ill...