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durablend

(7,460 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 10:06 PM Apr 2019

Yo Russia, we're like those three monkeys here...

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/04/pa-senate-moves-to-slow-down-the-replacement-of-voting-machines.html

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Senate moved Tuesday to potentially delay the ability of the state’s governor to decertify voting machines in expectation of replacing them all by 2020′s presidential elections to boost public confidence and defenses against hacking.

The Republican-controlled chamber approved the bill on a near party-line basis — one Democrat joined Republicans to pass it — in a vote that came a little over a year after Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf began pushing for new machines.

Republican senators have complained that Pennsylvania is rushing to buy machines at considerable taxpayer expense when there's logistical hurdles and no legitimate example of a voter irregularity in the state.

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