Reply #15: Voting machine vendor to offer credit

[Melissa G]

$388,000 would pay for a lot of pencils and papers and transparent counting process!



Voting machine vendor to offer credit


LITTLE ROCK (AP) — The company that provided electronic voting machines to Arkansas' counties will credit them roughly $388,000 for programming costs after a problem-plagued May 23 primary, the firm's spokeswoman said Monday.

Secretary of State Charlie Daniels told election administrators in a letter Monday that Election Systems & Software agreed to credit each county the cost of ballot programming, layout, and printing for the May 23 primary election.



"This is a step in the right direction," Daniels said.

A bipartisan committee of state and local election officials accepted a report last month on how ES&S performed under a $15.9 million contract with the state. Daniels ordered the review following a problem-plagued primary riddled with delays that stretched out vote-counting in some counties for days.

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