Thanks to Richard Winger from Ballot Access News for this Post.
On November 29th, Pennsylvania Election Officials settled the Lawsuit Stein v Cortes, e.d. 2:16cv-6287.
Pennsylvania Promised to Eliminate All Vote Counting Machines to do Not leave an Audit Paper Trail by 2020.
Jill Stein, the Green Party Presidential Nominee in 2016, had filed this Lawsuit not only against the Law that made it almost Impossible for a Candidate to get a Recount, but to Attack the use of Vote Counting Machines that don't have anything to Recount, because the Electronic Record has No Back-Up.
Stein lost the part of the Case involving how Candidates seek a Recount, but the part of her Case on the Audit Problem was still alive.
If Pennsylvania had Not Settled this Case, its Election Officials would have been required to Testify about the State Interest in having Machines that can't be Checked after the Initial Vote Count has been Announced.
The vast Majority of Pennsylvania's Fleet of more than 20,000 Voting Machines Record Votes Electronically and leave No Paper Trail,
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Ordered Counties that Plan to Replace their Electronic Voting Systems to Buy Machines that leave a Paper Trail, a Safeguard against Hacking, but his Budget doesn't include any Money to Fund the Replacement of the State's Aging, increasingly Vulnerable Fleet of Machines.
"This directive will ensure that the next generation of the commonwealth's voting systems conforms to enhanced standards of resiliency, auditability and security," Acting Secretary of State Robert Torres said in a Statement.
The State, however, is Not Requiring Counties to Discard their Old Equipment. The Directive only Requires them to Buy New Machines with a Paper Backup.
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