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Optical scan has Carteret board's vote

December 16,2005

BY JANNETTE PIPPIN View stories by reporter
DAILY NEWS STAFF

BEAUFORT - Carteret County could be casting ballots in a whole new way in next year's elections.

The Carteret County Board of Elections recommended by a 2-1 vote that the county purchase optical scan machines from Election Systems and Software, which would be a change from the previous electronic touch-screen system it used for 10 years.

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Board of Elections member Sue Verdon has said the incident was a human error and has continued to stand by the use of the touch-screen DRE machines. She cast the opposing vote for the optical scan system after opening the discussions with the suggestion that the county go with the touch-screen system by Diebold Election Systems.

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Carteret County reverted back to hand-counted paper ballots with its latest elections.

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