Voting Machines Fail Early As Americans Vote

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Voting machines across hundreds of precincts in many states have failed in the early hours of the US midterm election day.

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As Americans line up to vote, many voting stations are backed up or not even open at all due to errors and malfunctions with the new voting machines. The machines were installed in reaction previous problems with the old paper ballots system.

Many of the precincts and states that have been experiencing problems their new voting machines have already switched to using the old paper ballot system, pulling the machines out of use.

This is not the first time problems with the new voting machines have been in the news, but today is the first major election in America with the new machines.

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• http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6123570.stm