By
John Gideon on 9/25/2006, 4:52pm PT
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
MicroVote seems to be in trouble in Indiana again. They have still not settled with the state on violations from the primary earlier this year that could bring fines of $300,000 per incident. Now they have admitted disabling the straight-party feature on their Infinity machines because of a software error and they told no one in the state about the action. They are scrambling to fix the software and get the fix reinstalled. ...
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