Monday, May 31, 2010

City turns to new voting machines

Don't look for any changes to the way votes are counted in the upcoming municipal elections. City Clerk John Hannam says that the city has entered into an agreement with Dominion Voting to provide new voting machines. He says that the new machines will offer a wide range of different capabilities including the ability to help people with disabilities vote and it will allow people to vote from any poll in the city something which could not take place in other elections. Hannam's comments follow a presentation by three citizens who wanted the city to go back to a hand counting system from the current electronic system. Hannam countered by saying hand counting is the most innaccurate form of voting that exists because it's open to all kinds of human error.