Reply #4: It's the new machines that Dem Sec of State Eric Clark

[merh]

strong armed the counties into buying and using.

Apparently they don't work (as the Harrison County Circuit Clerk warned).

Here is the television station's story on the screw ups.

Poll Workers Struggle With New Voting Machines
Nov 7, 2006 04:16 PM

Many of the mistakes reported at polling places had to do with the new electronic voting machines purchased by the Secretary of State's office. When poll workers struggled setting them up Tuesday morning, and then several of the machines stopped working, the early part of the election became a hassle for everybody.

About 350 electronic voting machines were sent to 66 Harrison County voting precincts. And every time one of the machines broke down, Connie Ladner's cellphone rang.

"Do you think you need it?" she asked one caller. When the answer from that precinct was yes, she said, "I'll get somebody to bring it out."

(snip)

http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=5646515&ClientType=Printable

The problems with displaced residents and destroyed precincts have yet to be reported.