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The Wake County Board of Elections did
not reach a decision Tuesday about
purchasing new voting machines.
Cherie Poucher, the director
for the elections board, said the board
asked her for more information. The
three-man board will meet again next
Tuesday.
The board has decided there
will be only one location for early
voting in the May 2 primary, the
election board’s office in downtown
Raleigh.
Poucher suggested last week
they could use paper ballots counted by
hand for the primary. There were 80,000
voters in the 2002 primary.
In December the North
Carolina State Board of Elections
decertified Wake’s present optical scan
machines that counted paper ballots. The
state board then selected only one
vendor, Election Systems & Software, to
provide voting machines for the state’s
100 counties. ES&S is offering only two
choices to Wake County, an optical
scanner for paper ballots or a direct
record electronic machine with a touch
screen. |
