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Millions Lost After Replacing Voting Machines

Last updated on Thursday, February 07, 2008
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(UNDATED) - Four Indiana counties are out a million dollars, after their voting-machine supplier went broke.

Boone, Cass, Parke and Randolph counties had to buy brand-new voting machines, because there's no one left at VTI for customer support.

Indiana requires voting-machine companies to place the source code for their software in escrow for just such a circumstance, but it turned out to be no help, because VTI pledged its server to a Wisconsin Bank as collateral.

The bank agreed to let the counties use the server for last year's city elections, but has not renewed the offer for this year.


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