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Touch-screen machines may still be in play
New legislation calls for statewide paper-ballot elections this year, but the bipartisan measure also would allow voters to vote on touch-screen machines.
The hitch is that the voter must ask for the electronic machine. Otherwise, they’ll be stuck with a paper ballot or ballot card.
Touch-screens “shall be used only by an eligible elector who affirmatively requests” them, the legislation reads.
That allows the state the negotiate between paper ballots and the high-tech voting equipment to which voters must have access under federal law.
Mesa County’s touch-screen machines were certified Monday by state elections officials.
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