Study Predicts Long Lines at Maryland Polls in November:
Voting Rights Advocates Propose Plan to Reduce Wait Times FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 22, 2008
With high turnout predicted in the hotly contested presidential race, a recent study by physicist William Edelstein
shows that many Maryland voters can expect to wait hours to vote in November’s elections. The study found that most polling places could experience wait times of more than 2 hours at some point
on Election Day if voters take more than 6 minutes each to mark their ballots. The sites most likely to be affected
are those in which a majority of voters arrive at peak voting times before and after the work day...
Maryland Funds New Voting System Columbia, Md., April 5, 2008 - The Maryland General Assembly today approved the Fiscal Year 2009 budget, including funding to move Maryland by 2010 to a less expensive, recountable voting system based on optically scanned paper ballots...
Can You Count on Voting Machines? January 6, 2008 - New York Times magazine
The New York Times magazine ran this cover story January 6 on the nationwide problems with electronic voting machines and the need for paper ballots. This is the most prominent coverage in the media so far for the issue. It is a long article covering many different aspects of the problem.
Nothing is more important in our democracy than honest elections that voters know we can trust. Unless our elections meet that requirement, the rest of our democratic processes amount to window-dressing. When we change the means of voting in any way, we must guarantee that the new means leads to the agreed-upon end—to honest, transparent elections, that is—not to the unforeseen one of invisible ballots and unverifiable elections...
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