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Maryland Gov. Calls For End of Electronic Voting System

HeadlineSep 21, 2006

The governor of Maryland is calling for the state to scrap its electronic voting system and revert to paper ballots for the November elections. Governor Robert Ehrlich said such a move was needed because of technical glitches that occurred during last week’s primary election. The Baltimore Sun reports the governor wants to stop using electronic voting machines built by Diebold because they repeatedly crashed. Local election officials are still counting thousands of paper provisional ballots used by voters last week when the check-in machines failed. In the 4th Congressional District poll workers are still trying to determine who won the race between incumbent Congressman Albert Wynn and challenger Donna Edwards.

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