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Article: Allegheny County voters try to bar new machines.
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- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2006
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Byline: Ryan Haggerty
Apr. 13--A group of Allegheny County residents and the national People for the American Way filed suit in U.S. District Court yesterday to block the county from switching to touch-screen voting machines and paper ballots for the May 16 primary election.
The group is seeking an injunction to require the county to continue using its lever machines instead of the iVotronic machines the county agreed to purchase last week from Election Systems & Software, or ES&S, for $11.9 million. The ES&S machines were the county's second choice after machines manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems failed to pass state certification tests.
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