Local voting districts seen as crucial to election security

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) " Last November, election officials in a small Rhode Island town were immediately suspicious when results showed 99 percent of voters had turned down a noncontroversial measure about septic systems.It turned out an oval on the electronic ballot was misaligned ever so slightly and had thrown off the tally. The measure actually had passed by a comfortable margin.The scary part: The outcome might never have raised suspicion had the results not been so lopsided. [...]


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