Civic duty - No Comment - malfunctioning voting machines - Brief Article

Progressive, The, August, 2003

> From the Arizona Daily Star. "In April, when the Republicans on the New York City Board of Elections killed a plan to repair voting machines that had under-recorded votes in the 2000 election (with most of the unlucky voters being Democrats), Republican Commissioner Stephen Weiner denied that his party's disinterest in properly functioning machines showed bias against Democrats: 'There are some people who don't want (their vote) registered, but who report to the polls for civic reasons.'"