New Questions Arise About Touch-Screen Voting Machines: "Secretary of State Hood wrote to [county elections supervisor] Kaplan and said she was 'disturbed to have only recently learned that your office has been dealing with an equipment anomaly in the ES&S voting as early as May 2003.'...
On May 18, Kaplan responded to Hood, explaining that she 'must constantly strike a delicate balance between raising valid concerns, such as the ones in question regarding the audit trial mentioned in your letter, and not necessarily alarming the public.'"