Elections officials prefer similar machines
12/10/05
Person County Board of Elections members began their search for new voting machines Tuesday in Raleigh.
The trip to view new machines became a necessity recently when Person County Board of Elections Director Brenda Whitlow was notified that Person County’s ballot-counting machines had been decertified by the North Carolina Board of Elections and must be replaced.
Whitlow told The Courier-Times Friday that some of the questions the local board of elections had were answered Tuesday, but that there is still much to discuss and learn.
"We still don't know for sure what kind of machine that we are going to go with," Whitlow said. "And, we have not been
any prices yet. is supposed to tell us some prices next week," she said.
What Whitlow did know, however, is that Person County will likely continue to use a machine similar to the Optech III optical scan machine that has been used in the county for several years.
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The state elections board has set a Jan. 20 deadline for counties to select voting machines.
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