Weld Clerk wary -- for now -- of how voter registration machines will work

http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20080507/NEWS/528850806/-1/rss02

Weld County Clerk and Recorder Steve Moreno said Wednesday that he's worried that federally mandated statewide election registration machines may not be up to task by themselves for this year's looming elections.

Moreno's comments come just days after county clerks and officials statewide finished simulated elections that Moreno said pinpointed some problems in the statewide SCORE system -- the State of Colorado Registration and Election system.

Chief among Moreno's concerns is that among the 40 election judges he had working on laptops trying to access the system simultaneously during the mock election, many faced delays as long as 30 seconds that Moreno attributed to computer network slowdowns. Waiting 30 seconds may not seem like long, Moreno said, but it means big delays for people lined up to vote.

"We believe it is going to be a great system (someday)," Moreno said. "We're nervous about this system being test-driven in a presidential election."

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much more at the link.

Are we moving backward instead of forward?