SNOW HILL — With the 2014 mid-term election in the books and preparations for the 2016 General Election already underway, voters in the state will have to adjust to another change in the voting system the next time around.
Late last month, the State of Maryland inked a $28 million-plus contract with a Nebraska company to replace the existing touch-screen voting system with an innovative and secure paper ballot scanning and vote tabulation system. After concerns were raised with security and accuracy of the paperless touch-screen system following the election in November, the state has contracted with Elections Systems and Software LLC to switch back to a paper ballot system for 2016 and beyond.
As a result, jurisdictions all over the state including Worcester County will make the switch back to a paper ballot system. Worcester County Board of Elections Director Patti Jackson said this week her department is already preparing for the change.
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8 comments:
The gayor wont like this.
Now there will be accountability between the initial paper and the counts in the computer!
Recounts will have some merit again!
We need to do this across the country!
Seems like a huge step backward, I liked the touch screens.
You must be a corrupt obama lover, these machines are Easily rigged. ask joe.
how will the dems win an election now?
Maryland can't afford it but it's what we have to do to ensure honestly because obviously the democratic party will lie, cheat, steal and then protest fraud if we don't have a way to verify.
And the new way wont allow us to see who the computer is actually tallying.
Is that whining sound coming from the local NAACP?
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