Article: Electronic voting machines spark suit: Group wants counties to switch to paper ballots by November.

Byline: Paul Muschick

Aug. 16--A group of voters wants the state to stop 57 counties, including all in the Lehigh Valley area, from using electronic voting machines that do not produce backup paper records. Twenty-five voters from 11 counties sued Commonwealth Secretary Pedro Cortes, who oversees elections, in Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia on Tuesday. They want Cortes to decertify most of the state's elections systems, many of which cost millions of taxpayer dollars and were new in May, and replace them with paper-based systems by the November election. The plaintiffs and their attorneys suggest counties use paper ballots that can be scanned into ...

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