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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The state of Utah's pick for new electronic voting machines could be riddles with problems.
California officials -- who picked the same machines -- said in a mock election last week, the computers faltered more than 10 percent of the time.
Made by Diebold, the machines allows for touch-screen voting and tell voters when they've made voting mistakes, like skipping a race or voting for more than one candidate.
Mike Cragun, director of Utah's elections division, says the state will stand by it's $27 million purchase. He says he expects Diebold to fix any glitches when Utah uses the machines for the first time in the June 2006 primary elections.
Diebold spokesman David Bear says the company is working on the California problems.
States nationwide are switching to electronic voting as part of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which provides federal money for the upgrades.
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