| A week ago, Chicago held its first election using computerized voting machines built by Sequoia Voting Systems, a California company that also is selling equipment to Allegheny County. Sequoia Voting Systems machines ALLEGHENY COUNTY Allegheny County plans to use the AVC Advantage, first introducedin 1988, which allows voters to see the netire ballot at once. CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY Chicago and surrounding Cook County used two Sequoia models in last week's election. ?The Edge, first used in 1999, lets voters scroll through races, and it can print paper copies of ballots cast. ?The Insight is an optical-scan voting machine. Voters mark their choices on a paper ballot and feed it into the machine. As of yesterday, Chicago and surrounding Cook County still hadn't finished counting votes. Officials there were threatening to withhold millions of dollars from Sequoia until they have a chance to assess what went wrong last Tuesday, when many machines malfunctioned and hundreds of precincts failed to transmit their results to downtown offices. |
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