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November 7, 2006

Election: What to do if the voting machine breaks

If a voting machine malfunctions, polling employees are instructed to place the completed ballots into a locked part of the big blue boxes that take the ballots.

Once the machine is up and running again, poll workers stop new voting for the time it takes to feed those waiting ballots through the counter, said Robert Kando, executive director of the state Board of Elections.

.Voters who don’t like the idea of leaving their ballots in that provisional area can either wait until the machines are functioning again or turn their ballots back in and return later to feed them through the counter, Kando said.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 4:15 PM | Permalink

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