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Supervisors OK buying new voting machines
By ROGER H. AYLWORTH/MediaNews Group
ROVILLE -- In a decision that didn't win universal approval, the Butte County Board of Supervisors voted to purchase of touch-screen voting machines in time of the June primary.
With Chico Supervisor Mary Anne Houx the lone dissenter, the other four supervisors voted to spend $3.2 million to purchase 600 Diebold voting machines.
But Grubbs told the board a monitoring program conducted during last November's special election in six counties using Diebold and other systems found them "100 percent" accurate.

The machines the county are buying, according to Grubbs, produce a paper report on the voting, and allow the voter to check and correct his or her vote before finishing the balloting process.
Grubbs also stressed the machines will be programmed by the existing county elections staff, the same ones who have been doing the job in previous elections.

She said there is no way to tamper with the system.
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