Is it constitutional to outsource the state's vote counting? Lawyer objects to optical scan machines
Source: By Lauren Dorgan and Sarah Liebowitz, Concord Monitor (NH), August 15. 2007 12:15AM
New Hampshire's voting system tallied votes in last year's elections, but is it constitutional? Nope, says attorney Paul Twomey.
"In the New Hampshire constitution, there's about four or five separate places where they indicate how voting is to occur, and they all say in a slightly different form that an election official is to count and sort in an open fashion," said Twomey, who represented the Democratic Party in the Election Day 2002 phone-jamming lawsuit. But with the state's optical scan voting machines, "the counting is outsourced to Diebold," the voting machine manufacturer.