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Article: Allegheny County remains undecided about new voting machines.
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- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Byline: Jerome L. Sherman
Feb. 1--For the second time in less than a week, Allegheny County's Board of Elections has delayed a final decision on buying thousands of touch-screen voting machines.
Board members had a deadline of yesterday to approve a contract with Diebold Inc. of North Canton, Ohio, for 5,600 touch-screen machines at a discounted price of $11.9 million. But the company has granted an extension until Tuesday.
But voting activists who packed a three-hour public hearing at the county courthouse, Downtown, called on the elections board to consider alternatives to Diebold's AccuVote-TSX because of concerns about the machine's ...