AK: Diebold "Phone Home" Problems prompt hand recount

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Problems with Alaska’s new touchscreen voting machines slowed  
election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count  
and manually upload vote totals from several precincts across the state.

Election coordinator Lauri Wilson said several Diebold touchscreen  
machines in Southeast Alaska, the Interior and near Nome did not  
upload their votes into the Division of Elections’ central computing  
system. The machines’ modems either did not get a dial tone or had  
other problems, Wilson said.