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Grand jury grants chico ca machines Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.chicoer.com/Stories/0,1413,135~25088~1466751,00.html http://www.chicoer.com/Stories/0,1413,135~25088~1466751,00.html Grubbs agrees with Grand Jury's call for county to use electronic voting machines By MICHELLE MacEACHERN - Staff Writer OROVILLE - The Grand Jury's call for electronic voting machines won't get any argument from Clerk-Recorder Candace Grubbs. She's publicly argued in favor of the system long before the new report came out. But she says the county just doesn't have the money. "Electronic voting has many advantages," she said. That was demonstrated at a recent election experiment in the city of Chico she judged a success. People get a summary of their vote before their ballot is cast, so they can change it if they want. The machine won't let people overvote, like they do sometimes on paper ballots by filling in too many bubbles. They can be told if they only voted for three council candidates, and were offered the chance to choose four, she noted. "This will cure a lot of those errors," she said. "For the disabled, it's a big benefit." For instance, blind voters can make choices with the help of an audio system. "The major problem is finding the money to change," Grubbs stated. The county has $1.4 million allocated under Prop. 41, the Voting Modernization Act. But the system will cost more than that. An estimate from early last year put the cost at $2.5 million to $3.5 million. "We're looking," she said. "I have no disagreement with the report. It has a lot of advantages. It is time to move from our system to a more modern system of voting." The report mentions funds from the Help America Vote Act of 2002, but Grubbs said she now believes that money can't be used for voting machines, in part because the county upgraded from punch cards in 1988. She's quoted to that effect in the report. "In other words, the county is being penalized for recognizing the problem and doing the right thing" by eliminating the so-called "chad" problem. The report notes the county updated in 1988 from having the kind of system that caused problems in the 2000 Presidential election. The county's current system requires a special pen or pencil so votes can be machine scanned. But the scanner requires volunteers to correctly align voter cards so they can be scanned. That took until 1 a.m. on election night 2002. © 2003 Chico Enterprise-Record

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