VOTING CHAOS AS MORE PLACES ADMIT FLAWS IN ELECTRONIC MACHINES

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LA TIMES - Uncertainty, legal challenges and, in some cases, chaos are
gripping voting offices as they contend with allegations that the
electronic machines are ridden with defects and vulnerable to
manipulation.

Local and state administrators are switching systems or trying to patch
up problems at the last minute, even as they contend with new laws,
earlier primaries, complex ballots and, in some places, shortages of
poll workers.

Registrars and secretaries of state are hoping to avert a disaster, but
they warn that vote counts will be late and that winners of contests may
not be known until the morning after elections. They also are bracing
for an onslaught of legal challenges to the outcomes. . .

At least four states -- California, Ohio, Colorado and Florida -- are
moving to severely limit or eliminate electronic voting machines, which
were rushed into service with $3 billion of federal funding over the
last eight years.

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