Discuss “How Things Work: Electronic Voting Machines”

Tomorrow, voters across the country will cast their ballots and decide which political candidates will take which offices. But things will be a little different this year for the area’s voters: They will be using new electronic touchscreen devices. Electronic voting machines are steadily replacing traditional paper and mechanical ballots across the country.

Most of these voting devices are technically described as Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines because they store votes electronically. DRE machines are different from some other electronic voting machines which have electronic interfaces but do not record data electronically.

Allegheny County has selected Electronic Systems & Software, Inc., as the vendor for the county’s...