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All of Harris County's voting machines destroyed in 3-alarm north Houston fire
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| Last Edited | RP Aug 27, 2010 02:15pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | CHRIS MORAN and DALE LEZON |
| Media | Newspaper - Houston Chronicle |
| News Date | Friday, August 27, 2010 06:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman this morning said she is confident of timely, clean elections in November, even as a fire that destroyed the county's entire inventory of 10,000 electronic voting machines still burned.
Kaufman urged voters to cast their ballots early to help the county cope with a possible shortage of equipment on election day.
"Because I don’t expect to have 10,000 pieces to work with, no matter what we do, I’m sure that we’re going to be putting on a full court press urging people to vote early," Kaufman said.
Kaufman said she expected that the fire in a county warehouse in the 600 block of Canino, in north Houston, has destroyed $30 million worth of equipment and caused another $10 million in damage to the building.
Kaufman hopes to cobble together a collection of voting machines through loans from other counties and replacement equipment from its vendor, she said. |
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