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Phillips County Reports Problems; Sec. of State to Review Contract 
KATV - Tuesday May 23, 2006 9:27pm 
 
Little Rock (AP) - Problems with new voting equipment have delayed tabulation of votes in at least one Arkansas county. Phillips County election officials put a note on the courthouse door in Helena-West Helena this evening saying they would be unable to count ballots until tomorrow.

Andrew Bagley, a justice of peace candidate, said the note told the curious that tabulation of votes would be delayed, quote,"because the vendor failed to supply a chip for the tabulator."

Deputy Secretary of State Janet Harris said state officials and technicians for Election Systems & Software of Omaha, Nebraska,which provided the equipment, had been working on the Phillips County issue all day. She said the company plans to reprogram a chip and drive it back to the county tomorrow.

Secretary of State Charlie Daniels says he wants to find out why a $15 million contract with ESS for the voting machines wasn't completely fulfilled by the time voting started in party primaries. Officials in four of Arkansas' 75 counties were not able to use the touch-screen voting machines provided by ESS, which meet the requirements of the Help America Vote Act.



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