New voting-machine demo canceled in Murrysville
A late-March hands-on demonstration of Westmoreland County’s new voting machines has been canceled amid the spread of the coronavirus, but voters can still get a digital look at how the machines operate.
While the March 28 demonstration in Murrysville will not go forward, county election officials have posted a video to their website detailing the new process for voters.
Commissioners paid $7.1 million last year for the new voting system to meet a gubernatorial mandate that all elections equipment in Pennsylvania used in the 2020 presidential election include verifiable paper trails. Westmoreland’s new system replaces touch-screen computers used since 2005 that did not allow paper ballot reviews of the votes cast.
The new system also uses touch-screen technology but prints out completed paper ballots that reflect the votes made on the computers. Voters will manually scan their completed ballots into counting devices at each precinct.
For more on the new voting system, see VotesPA.com.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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