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Research in Review Magazine: Aren't the new machines supposed to let you know if you didn't cast a valid vote?

Lance deHaven-Smith: No, that's one of the problems. It's obviously not letting people know. There was a special election in the spring, where only one contest was on the ballot. I think it was the spring of 2004, in Palm Beach County where several hundred voters came and turned in ballots that didnt register a vote. [Robert] Wexler, a congressman there, sued to try to get the touch-screen machines either decertified or require a paper ballot because he said, People aren't going to come out for this one thing and not cast a vote.

It shows that the machines have got a problem. But the state wouldn't act.

-- from an interview in the Fall/Winter 2005 issue.