Daily Camera: Paper Beats Electric

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Paper beats electric for voting system
County decides to wait for national standards

By Ryan Morgan, Camera Staff Writer
December 13, 2003

Boulder County election officials have decided they would rather not act in haste and repent in leisure when it comes to adopting a new generation of voting machines.

The county has decided to put off buying new electronic voting machines, said Tom Halicki, the county's election manager. It will, however, still try to buy a new non-electronic system in the next few weeks, "We're pulling one half of the equation out," he said. The move pleased local critics of electronic voting.

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