A state grant of $411,000 will help Westmoreland County elections officials pay for new voting machines that are expected to be in place for the 2020 general election.
The Tribune-Review reports that at least another $7 million will need to be found to purchase new voting machines to take the place of touch-screen machines that have been in place over the last 10 years. Replacements for the voting machines are required under a state mandate from Governor Tom Wolf that voting machines in the state need a verifiable paper-trail to track vote totals.
Westmoreland County Commissioners want the new machines in place as early as 2019.
