TRENTON — A Mercer County judge will weigh arguments this afternoon from voting-rights activists who contend that electronic voting machines are unreliable and vulnerable to fraud.
Lawyers for the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers University sued the state last week, seeking to force election officials to use old-fashioned paper ballots in the presidential election next week.
They argued that the electronic voting technology used in 15 of the state's 21 counties does not provide a printed record and therefore "cannot be relied upon to protect the fundamental right to vote."
