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The New York Times
November 22, 2006
By DIANE CARDWELL
A group of voting reform advocates urged the Board of Elections yesterday to reject touch-screen electronic voting machines as unreliable as the board began public hearings on selecting a system to replace New York’s antiquated lever machines. According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, a study of 2,042 counties in states with ballot questions in 2004 found that touch-screen electronic machines failed to count 15.4 percent of votes. Machines that scan paper ballots lost only 8.8 percent of comparable votes. New York State has not yet determined which machines it will approve to comply with new election laws, but the city board has begun evaluating models from the four companies that have expressed interest in providing the machines, said John A. Ravitz, executive director of the City Board of Elections.
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