Reply #3: PA: Counties Buy UniLect; UniLect Decertified; State Picks Up Tab

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I wonder how it is that these counties bought such lousy voting machines. Didn’t they review the capabilities, do their homework and select systems that work beyond the required standards. I guess not. Now, like a weak parent, the state of Pennsylvania is rewarding the counties for their bad judgment by covering their losses.

State to help pay for vote after machines decertified

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_378163.html

By TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

The state will help Beaver, Greene and Mercer counties pay for their Nov. 8 municipal elections after it decertified their electronic voting machines.

The costs could run from $46,000 in Greene County to $200,000 in Beaver County, officials said.

The three counties had been using UniLect Patriot voting machines, which were decertified in April after they failed a test for recording and counting votes.

Beaver County commissioners Chairman Dan Donatella said the three counties lobbied hard to get state help for the upcoming elections
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"This caused us a lot of heartburn," he said.

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