A legal challenge in Pennsylvania over the viability of a particular manufacturer’s voting system has ended in a new settlement that advocates say will boost accountability and transparency by requiring election officials to publicly report problems with voting machines.
The federal Election Assistance Commission requires manufacturers to report malfunctions to it, but the groups and advocates who sued Pennsylvania say they were unaware of a similar state-level public reporting requirement.
The suit had sought to prevent the use of the systems in Pennsylvania, but state officials defended their certification of the system.in a judicial race in Pennsylvania’s Northampton County resulted from human errors in formatting the ballot. Under the settlement’s malfunction reporting requirement, counties must compile a record of all malfunctions reported to it that prevented or delayed voting, vote-counting or reporting results.
Election officials say malfunctions on software and electronic voting systems are not necessarily uncommon, but, they say, many problems end up being caused by a mechanical glitch, a defective ballot or a mistake by an election worker.
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