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Commissioners play hardball and win

By JOHN LATIMER
Staff Writer

Lebanon Daily News

The Lebanon County Commissioners are breathing easier today after signing a purchase order guaranteeing the delivery of 267 electronic election machines in time for May’s primary election.

“We did sign a purchase order at 5 (p.m. Monday) ... and we are going to get all the machines promised,” Chairman Bill Carpenter said yesterday.

Last week, that delivery was in doubt when Election Systems & Software, the Nebraska company that manufactures the iVotronic touch-screen voting system, told the county it could only deliver about half of the order. The company was able to fill the order after convincing other counties that placed their orders after Lebanon County to take a cut in their deliveries, said Carpenter.

All counties in the state must have an electronic voting system in place by the May 16 primary election to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002. The minimum requirement for counties is to have two electronic voting machines in each precinct, one of which must be handicapped-accessible.

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