The skinny on voting machines
The folks over at Guilford County's Board of Elections canceled today's meeting on voting machines. The meeting was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but that was also canceled when only one of three board members showed up.
Look for more discussion on this next month. Until then, Scoop offers bedside reading.
This document was drawn up by county elections director George Gilbert, who generally favors touch-screens over optical-scan systems for Guilford. He offers a primer on law changes and other considerations counties are facing as they purchase new voting equipment.
These papers come from optical-scan supporter and Gilbert critic David Allen, who helped push voter-verified paper ballots into law earlier this year.
Allen is also a big-time critic of Diebold Election Systems, one of two voting-machine vendors the county is considering. Click here for more from Capital Beat's Mark Binker.