Alaska: problems with electronic voting in yesterday's primary
AP reports: Problems with Alaska's new touchscreen voting machines in several precincts slowed election returns Tuesday and caused elections officials to hand count and manually upload a still-unknown number of votes.
Election coordinator Lauri Wilson said several Diebold touchscreen machines in Southeast Alaska, the Interior and near Nome did not upload their votes into the Division of Elections' central computing system. The machines' modems either did not get a dial tone or had other problems, Wilson said.
The votes from touchscreen voting machines four Kodiak precincts had to be manually uploaded because the electronic ballots were required to be presented in more than one language, Wilson said. ...
One precinct's optical scanner voting machine also could not connect by modem, Wilson said. -- adn.com | alaska wire : Problems with touchscreen machines slow vote count