Concerns Raised Over Proposed Voting Machines
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Ata City Hall hearing yesterday, advocates and some elected officials said they are worried about introducing new voting machines during the presidential elections of 2008. The meeting was held to discuss a proposed resolution that would mandate optical scan voting machines.
“There are several states that had problems with the voting machines last election,” the executive director of the good governance organization Citizens Union, Dick Dadey, said. “Changing voting machines isn’t as simple as it appears.”
The New York Public Interest Research Group, a fair voting advocacy group, wants to hold the introduction of new voting machines until 2009.
