Voting machines

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia's new voting machines dominated the questions at Tuesday's budget hearing in City Council for the City Commissioners' office. The City Commissioners' office has 100 employees and a $12 million budget that ordinarily would have been the topic of the...

By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Time and money are running short for states to replace aging or inadequate voting machines before the 2020 presidential primaries, according to a report released Tuesday. State and local election officials in 31 states say they want to...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) -- County officials are expressing reservations about Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's proposal to help fund a mandated upgrade of the state's voting systems. Counties will have to select voting machines with a paper trail by the end of the year. In his budget...

PAULSBORO, NJ (KYW Newsradio) -- As votes are cast in next week’s midterms, residents of one Gloucester County town will get to try out new electronic machines that provide a paper trail in the name of ballot accuracy and security. It could well pave the way for a similar process, maybe throughout...

By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — With the midterm elections less than a month away, a strong majority of Americans are concerned the nation's voting systems might be vulnerable to hackers, according to a poll released Wednesday. That is roughly unchanged from concerns about...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia and Pennsylvania election officials are reassuring voters that their ballots will be secure in the wake of Thursday's national security warning of Russian hacking. The most important thing voters you can do to protect November's elections is to vote, says...