Sweeping Changes Expected in Voting by 08 Election

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Sweeping Changes Expected in Voting by 2008 Election

By Ian Urbina and Christopher Drew

The New York Times

Friday 08 December 2006

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/washington/08voting.html

By the 2008 presidential election, voters around the country are likely to see sweeping changes in how they cast their ballots and how those ballots are counted, including an end to the use of most electronic voting machines without a paper trail, federal voting officials and legislators say.

New federal guidelines, along with legislation given a strong chance to pass in Congress next year, will probably combine to make the paperless voting machines obsolete, the officials say. States and counties that bought the machines will have to modify them to hook up printers, at federal expense, while others are planning to scrap the machines and buy new ones.

Motivated in part by voting problems during the midterm elections last month, the changes are a result of a growing skepticism among local and state election officials, federal legislators and the scientific community about the reliability and security of the paperless touch-screen machines used by about 30 percent of American voters.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/washington/08voting.html

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