Maryland Funds New Voting System April 6, 2008- SAVEourVotes News Release
The Maryland General Assembly last week approved the Fiscal Year 2009 budget, including funding to move Maryland by 2010 to a less expensive, recountable voting system based on optically scanned paper ballots. This highly popular switch, favored by nearly two thirds of voters statewide, was enacted last year in matching bills sponsored by Sen. Edward Kasemeyer (D, Baltimore and Howard Counties) and Del. Sheila Hixson (D, Montgomery County) and passed unanimously by both chambers of the General Assembly, contingent on funding in this years budget... (Full news release)
The Costs of Maryland's Electronic Voting System Revised Feb. 25, 2008 - SAVEourVotes
Maryland's election costs are nearly ten times what they were before the switch to our statewide touch-screen voting system. And county election costs are soaring, too, even with the state picking up half the tab for the equipment costs. Learn how MD can save millions of dollars each year by switching to an optically scanned paper-ballot voting system.
Full 15-page PDF / 1-Page Summary / SOV Testimony to fund HB 18 - SB 392
Md. Budget Has $6.8 Million for New Optical-Scan Voting System January 18, 2008 - Baltimore Sun
Gov. Martin O'Malley has proposed $6.8 million to buy new optical-scan machines, which read paper ballots filled in by voters with pencil or pen. They will not be available for use until 2010 - too late for the presidential primary or general election this year. "Our machines can easily be rigged in ways that are undetectable," said Robert Ferraro of SAVE our Votes, a nonpartisan group. "We were anxiously waiting to see if the governor put the money in his budget, and he did, so we are very pleased. Otherwise, we would have been stuck with a paperless system." ARTICLE / SOV NEWS RELEASE
Can You Count on Voting Machines? January 6, 2008 - New York Times magazine
The New York Times magazine ran this cover story January 6 on the nationwide problems with electronic voting machines and the need for paper ballots. This is the most prominent coverage in the media so far for the issue. It is a long article covering many different aspects of the problem.
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