Reply #8: Pennsylvania...Selection expected today...

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The Fayette County commissioners are expected to select an electronic voting machine at a public hearing today.
The commissioners initially scheduled a vote for Tuesday afternoon but postponed action while they continued to talk with vendors and officials from the Pennsylvania Department of State.

The lever voting machines the county bought in 1976 were decertified for state and federal elections as part of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.

The county has $1.1 million in grants and has reserved an additonal $500,000 in the general fund for the purchase of new machines. County officials are trying to determine which vendors will be able to provide the machines in time for poll workers to be trained for the May 16 primary.
Advanced Voting Solutions, UniLect Corp., Election Systems and Software and Diebold demonstrated their machines during a public hearing last week.

The meeting this morning was at the Public Service Building at 22 E. Main St., Uniontown
-- Staff reports
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_435747.html