Election 2006; Waukesha County Voting Bedeviled; Inoperable Machines, Incompatible Computers Hamper Ballot Counts

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Waukesha Computer glitches, inoperable equipment and other problems troubled Tuesday's primary balloting in Waukesha County, resulting in one candidate mistakenly being posted as winner of a race only later to be declared the loser.

The problems also prevented the county from posting final results of races until the early morning hours of Wednesday, and kept the county from posting results online.

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Election 2006; Waukesha County Voting Bedeviled; Inoperable Machines, Incompatible Computers Hamper Ballot Counts

Across Wisconsin, Tuesday's primary marked the debut of 2,800 new handicap-accessible voting machines mandated in 2002 under the Help Americans Vote Act.

In Waukesha County, problems with touch-screen equipment were among a ho...

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