Reply #36: Pa. certifies just 1 voting machine

[Mnemosyne]

Not one of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties has purchased state-approved voting machines, and Lancaster, like other counties, is seeing the Dec. 31 deadline hovering closer.

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That model, AccuPoll Inc.’s Direct Electronic Voting Machine, provides election services in Pennsylvania through a company county officials have had trouble with in the past.

Contracted in 2000 to supply an intermunicipal police information sharing system, that company, Blue Bell -based Unisys Corp., failed to deliver on its promises. The county threatened to sue the company until Unisys finally fulfilled its contractual obligations in 2004, Burnette said.


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According to 2002’s federal Help America Vote Act, all municipalities must replace their voting machines with models that are capable of manually auditing tallies and that are accessible to disabled voters.
But President Bush waited until 2004 to create the Election Assistance Commission, which would set new guidelines. To this day, those guidelines have yet to be finalized, according to EAC spokeswoman Jeannie Layson.


more:
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/18292

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