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Voting-machine demonstration causes flap
By JOHN LATIMER
Staff Writer
Lebanon Daily News

A decision to put Lebanon County’s new electronic-voting system on display at a Republican political gathering this weekend has some candidates crying foul.

County officials, however, are defending the display on the grounds that it is important to get the new machines in front of as many voters as possible before the May 16 primary.

The iVotronic touch-screen voting system will be available to see and touch Saturday at Hebron Fire Co. during a candidate meet-and-greet breakfast sponsored by the Lebanon County Republican Committee. Scheduled to appear are the GOP’s endorsed candidates, state Sen. David Brightbill and state Reps. Peter Zug and Mauree Gingrich.

Elaine Ludwig, the county’s chief clerk of elections, said she was approached a couple of weeks ago by Brightbill’s chief of staff, Erik Arneson, about the possibility of having a machine at the event.

http://www.ldnews.com/news/ci_3706657

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