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Ehrlich Wants Paper Ballots For Nov. Vote
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 21, 2006 01:20pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, September 21, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A week after the primary election was plagued by human error and technical glitches, Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called yesterday for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November election.
"When in doubt, go paper, go low-tech," he said.
The problems playing out in Maryland have created unease elsewhere in the nation, where more than 80 percent of voters will use electronic voting machines in the Nov. 7 election and a third of all precincts are using them for the first time.
"He realizes it's a tall order," Fawell said. But moving to paper ballots would "eliminate the chronic problems that electronic voting machines demonstrated [Sept. 12] with respect to crashing and susceptibility to tampering." |
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