Reply #10: NY- New voting machines ordered [View All]

[Melissa G]

New voting machines ordered

By Tom Grace
Cooperstown Bureau


Otsego County has ordered 40 optical scan voting systems at a cost of about $460,000, according to Sheila Ross, the county's Republican deputy elections commissioner.

"We want to have them up and running for the September primary," she said.

The machines are equipped with ballot markers for use by people with disabilities.

All counties in the state that still are using out-of-date equipment must order new machines by Friday, a date determined by federal Judge Gary Sharpe.

Sharpe is presiding in a case brought by the federal Department of Justice in 2006 in which the DOJ contends that New York state is not abiding by the terms of the federal Help America Vote Act.

http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_036040042.html