Take Two

Tribune this morning on the latest attempts to improve voting procedures:

To avoid the balloting problems that plagued March's primary election, all 5,000 precincts in Cook County and Chicago will have separate touch-screen voting machines for the November general election, officials said Friday.

County and city officials appearing in front of the Illinois State Board of Elections said sharing equipment between precincts was part of the reason it took so long to tabulate the results of the March 21 primary.

"It seemed like where we had most of our problems was where we were sharing touch-screen equipment in the polling places," said Lance Gough, executive director of the city's Board of Election Commissioners."

Now if they could only clean up the voter rolls in a credible manner.