State To Receive $32 Million For Electronic Voting

[Happy Eddie]

From CTNow / Hartford Courant, which of course requires registration.

http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-27171734.apds.m0946.bc-ct--votiaug27,1,1125559.story?coll=hc-headlines-local

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Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced Friday that some of the money will be used to buy an electronic voting machine for each of the state's 750 polling places for the November 2005 municipal election, as required under federal law.

The state will seek offers from voting machine companies this fall.

After the 2005 elections, cities and towns can apply for funding to replace all of their old lever voting machines. The state will provide the money on a first come, first-served basis.

None of the new voting machines, which often resemble ATM machines, will be used in this year's presidential election in Connecticut. About 30 percent of the nation will be using them this November.
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Has voter fraud been a problem in Connecticut in the past? I know this state has had its share of corruption, but is there a history of dead people voting, race-based suppression, and so on?

[Nile]

1. The state will seek offers from voting machine companies.

I hope that they do better at picking this one than they did with picking an emissions testing company.