[TRENDINGPOLITICSNEWS] Another contentious election, another voting machine controversy. As reported by local Fox affiliate WLUK, a voting machine in Green Bay broke down and needed to be replaced during Tuesday’s election.
"City clerk Celestine Jeffreys said the machine at the Green Bay Botanical Garden wasn’t working," WLUK reported. "Backup machines also did not work."
The city had to borrow a voting machine from Brown County.
"Those machines had been serviced, so we have to take a much more close look after this election as to whether or not we need to purchase new machines and exactly how we can ensure that that doesn’t happen again," Jeffreys said. "It’s the same problem we’ve been having at that ward for a couple of different election cycles."
Jeffreys said more than 7,000 absentee ballots had been returned to the city as of 4 p.m. About 30% of the city’s ballots are cast absentee, she added.
According to Wisconsin Right Now, Brown County, where Green Bay is located, has ES&S ExpressVote voting machines. According to ES&S, "the paper-based ExpressVote Universal Voting System uses touch-screen technology that produces a paper record for tabulation."
ES&S, based in Omaha, Nebraska, controls around 50% of the country’s election system market. As reported by election watchdog Pro Publica in 2019, ES&S’ systems has been "plagued by mishaps at the local level." |