(MI) Tentative Deal Set on Voting System (Tabulator Tale)

[Wilms]

Tentative deal set on voting system

Agreement would allow Jackson to use 400 Hinds machines

By Jack Mazurak
[e-mail]

April 13, 2005

The County Election Commission will control the mainframe computer, used to calculate the votes from the touch-screen machines. That had been the major sticking point during talks.

-snip-

At Tuesday's City Council meeting, hours before the tentative agreement was reached, council members blasted the County Election Committee.

Bo Brown, Ward 4 councilman, responded to an allegation that someone from the county told the election system software vendor not to sell the city the necessary software to make a mainframe of its own.

"Obviously the county may feel that they have us by the you-know-what," Brown said. "I can't believe the vendor won't sell to us. That's not capitalism."

-snip/more-

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050413/NEWS01/504130346/1002/NEWS01