NJ judge says electronic voting machines to stay

By Kaitlin Gurney

Philadelphia INQUIRER   26 October 2004

TRENTON - A Superior Court judge today denied voting rights activists' request to ban the use of electronic voting machines in next week's election.

Lawyers with the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers University argued the electronic technology was faulty and susceptible to fraud. Lawyers for the state countered that the 15 counties that use the machines had not experienced any problems.

Mercer County Assignment Judge Linda Feinstein told the lawyers that replacing electronic voting with old-fashioned paper ballots so close to the election would be "a formula for disaster."

Feinstein declined to dismiss the case and so lawyers said they expected to return to court after the election to argue the case further.