Convinced that problems with the new electronic voting machines have been resolved, Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker told county commissioners that he is ready to sign the papers and cut the check to vendor ES&S.
Payment on the $10.6 million system is expected to go through as soon as the county legal and tech departments give it the final okay, Metsker said.
Metsker said his office is satisfied that the problems that slowed the vote reporting software to a crawl in the August primary have been successfully addressed. The coding problem that led to hours of delay in reporting vote totals was fixed for the general election, and equipment worked well even with an unusually high turnout, he said.
“We’ve all been very traumatized by the difficulty,” Metsker said. “To have a good outcome meant we had no bad media or negative comments within the community and we’re on our way to a successful recovery.”
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