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Touch-screen voting machines OK’d

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002 | 10:58 a.m.

Voting for the blind, otherwise disabled and foreign-language speaking residents will be easier, Clark County officials say, because of the County Commission's approval Tuesday to buy 200 touch-screen ballot machines.

The machines will cost the county $1 million -- $589,500 from the coffers and $410,500 in a credit from the company for 1,642 existing machines.

A county spokeswoman said the new machines from Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. will make voting easier for minority language voters, especially the county's fast-growing Hispanic population.

Also, she said, the visually impaired will be able to use the new equipment without assistance, allowing them the privacy afforded to sighted voters.

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