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March 3, 2004

ACLU Wants Investigation Of Touch-Screen Voting Machines

Voting-Machine Failures Reported Tuesday

SAN DIEGO -- The American Civil Liberties Union requested that the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to convene a panel of experts to investigate problems with the new touch-screen voting machines.

Nancy Sasaki, executive director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties issued the request in a statement Wednesday.

"The ACLU is very troubled by the numerous reports we have received of voters having been disenfranchised yesterday due to start-up problems with the touch screen voting machines," the statement said.

The ACLU wants the Board of Supervisors to assemble a panel of experts, community leaders and county staff to investigate the problems before the election in November, Sasaki said.

"We ask that this investigative panel report its findings to the Board of Supervisors and the public no later than July 1, 2004 so there will be time to make any necessary changes," Sasaki said.

Difficulties with the card that activates the voting machines were called in to the Registrar of Voters office soon after the polls opened Tuesday. The problems were reported throughout the county, which used about 10,000 touch-screen machines for the first time.

Several people were turned away from their polling places when the problems could not be immediately corrected

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