Reply #9: PA: Electronic Voting Machines to Get Tested Before Shipment

[Mnemosyne]

Posted: Friday, 11 April 2008 6:47AM

Electronic Voting Machines to Get Tested Before Shipment

by KYW's Mike DeNardo

Philadelphia's electronic voting machines will be inspected Friday morning before they're shipped out for the April 22nd primary.

Voting machines at the city's Wissahickon Avenue warehouse will be tested Friday to be sure they're working properly. The city has 3,500 electronic voting machines, and after they're given the once-over, they'll be trucked out to nearly 1,700 voting divisions by primary day, says deputy city commissioner Fred Voigt:

"It takes ten days to actually deliver all of the machines. They go to schools, public buildings, recreation centers, private dwellings. So it's a complicated process."

Only a fraction of the machines will actually be inspected, though. Representatives of the city Board of Elections and volunteers from the Committee of seventy will examine two machines from each of the city's 66 wards.

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