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Texarcana Gazette

Saturday, June 3, 2006 3:31 PM CDT
By JAMES WILLIAMS
Sports Editor


The Miller County Election Commission is frustrated that the new touch-screen voting machines have no software to operate in the upcoming runoff elections.

On Friday morning, two election commission members, including Miller County Election Administrator Robby Selph, said the frustration was similar to buying a new car and after two weeks the car breaks down.


“And the dealer won’t fix it,” said John Burns, the Republican representative on the Election Commission.


As the commission’s meeting was ending Friday, a representative of Election System and Software called Selph on his cell phone to say the software to operate the voting machines was to be shipped Friday.

The meeting was conducted in the office of Ann Nicholas, county clerk and voter registrar, to certify the May 23 primary election.


Selph told the ES&S representative the software will have to be tested on the machines and a state law requires the runoff candidates to be notified about the testing of the software 48 hours in advance of the test.

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2006/06/03/local_news/news/news02.txt