State to maintain voting machines

MAINTENANCE: Frank Andrews, right, election programmer, and Garland County Election Commissioner Twila Brown test touch-screen voting machines March 28, 2008. The state will begin paying for the equipment’s upkeep Sept. 1.

The county will save some much-needed money, thanks to Arkansas’ Secretary of State Charlie Daniels and the Help America Vote Act.

In a June 16 letter to the Garland County Election Commission, Daniels said the state has entered into a statewide contract with Election Systems and Software to provide maintenance for voting machines until the 2012 elections.

GCEC Chairman Charles Tapp said the county previously contracted with ESS for inspections and maintenance for its iVotronic touch-screen voting machines and M-100 scanning machines, but was told the annual service fee...

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July, 2009