New voting machines pose Election Day problems
Mississippi Sun
Voters at several South Mississippi precincts reported problems with the new touch-screen machines as voting got under way in midterm elections this morning.
At Gulfport Little Theater and Biloxi Community Center, for example, voters were handed paper ballots because workers were unable to make to the machines work.
And at Margaret Sherry Library on Popps Ferry Road, three of seven touch-screen machines were working while at D'Iberville Community Center, just four of 13 were working.
Votes cast with the paper ballots will be counted, assured David Blount, communications director with Secretary of State Eric Clarkâs office in Jackson.