2006 Current List of Voting Machines for North Carolina Counties County Voting Equipment from the North Carolina State Board of Elections (file reflects 2006) All Optical Scan/Automark (No Touchscreens) - 61 - most accessible for physically disabled and sight impaired.    Alexander, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Beaufort, Bertie, Buncombe, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Currituck, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe,Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Graham, Granville, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford,Hoke, Hyde, Jones, Lincoln, Macon, Martin, McDowell, Mitchell, Montgomery, Nash, Northhampton, Onslow, Orange, Pasquotank, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Robeson,Rockingham, Scotland, Stanly, Stokes, Swain, Tyrell, Vance, Wake, Washington, Watauga, Wayne, Wilkes, Yadkin, Yancey. Additions:  Johnston.  Chatham (switched in April 2008).   Optical Scan/Touchscreens (No Automark) - 10  - accessible to sight impaired   Bladen, , Craven, Cumberland, Dare, Forsyth, Haywood, Lee, Moore, New Hanover, Richmond,   Optical Scan/Automark/Touchscreens - 6 - accessible to sight impaired and physically disabled on election day, sight impaired only during early voting   Cabarrus, Catawba, Iredell, Rowan, Sampson, Union   Touchscreen only - 23 - accessible to sight impaired only   Alamance, Alleghany, Brunswick, Burke, Caswell, Cherokee, Davidson, Davie, Guilford, Henderson, Jackson, Lenoir, Madison, Mecklenburg, Pamlico, Pender, Perquimans, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Transylvania, Warren, Wilson     Voting Machines Before 2006   Prior to 2006, Voting systems in North Carolina included punch cards, optical scanners , lever machines, hand counted paper ballots and also direct record electronic (DRE) voting machines.   DREs include touchscreen and also the "dial a vote" type machine.    Currently, there are no touchscreen  voting machines certified in North Carolina that produce a voter verified paper trail. The last official count in North Carolina was in March, and totaled 7,363 DREs.   All electronic voting machines in our state have "secret" (proprietary) source code that may not be examined by our election officials.   OS= Optical Scan DRE= Direct Record Electronic Punchcard Counties Cabarrus, Duplin, Forsyth (using DREs in early voting), Onslow, Vance, Watauga Lever Counties Chowan, Scotland Airmac/ATS optical scanners  Camden, Jones Optech II and other models (ES&S) optical scanners  Currituck, Granville, New Hanover Optech III, Optech IIIPE,(ES&S) optical scanner   Alexander, Beaufort, Caldwell, Chatham, Clay, Cleveland, Cumberland, Durham, Gates, Haywood, Johnston, Lincoln, Nash, Orange, Person, Randolph, Rockingham, Sampson, Stokes, Wake, Wayne, Wilkes, Yadkin M100 (ES&S) optical scanner - Hoke AccuVote (Diebold) optical scanners  Anson, Ashe, Avery, Columbus, Dare, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Iredell, Martin, Mitchell, Montgomery, Northampton, Richmond, Robeson, Rowan, Washington, Yancey AVC Sequoia Pacific - Direct Record Electronic Buncombe, Pitt, Union Microvote - Direct Record Electronic Alamance, Davidson, Mecklenburg Microvote Infinity - Direct Record Electronic Caswell, Lee, McDowell, Pender, Swain, Warren Danaher Electronic 1242 - Direct Record Electronic Bladen, Cherokee, Henderson, Jackson, Lenoir, Macon, Madison, Moore, Wilson Unilect – Patriot Direct Record Electronic Burke, Carteret Hart InterCivic - Direct Record Electronic   Catawba ES&S Votronic - Direct Record Electronic Brunswick, Craven (also has Ivotronic), Davie, Greene, Guilford, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Polk, Rutherford, Stanly, Transylvania   ES&S iVotronic - Direct Record Electronic Jackson Diebold AccuVote TS - Direct Record Electronic   Gaston Fidler Doubleday EV 2000 - Direct Record Electronic Alleghany, Bertie, Hertford, Surry * Graham, Hyde and Tyrrell not listed for voting equipment; they use paper ballots. (Paper ballots have lowest spoilage rate, highest accuracy).