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Replacing aging U.S. voting equipment will take years and billions of dollars

NPR Topics: News·Miles Parks·4 days ago
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A young child waits for her mom to finish voting at Phillis Wheatley Community School in New Orleans on May 15. Many voting machines in Louisiana are decades old. Kathleen Flynn/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kathleen Flynn/Getty Images America's voting systems are getting old. Take Louisiana, for instance, where many Gen Z and Millennial voters cast primary ballots this month using machines that were older than they were . Election officials there talk about having to "cannibalize" parts from dead machines to service others. "Replacement parts are no longer manufactured," Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry told a state Senate committee earlier this year. "Simply put, the [election] system has reached the end of its life cycle." A new report out Friday shows the state is not alone in that regard. If not replaced, by the next presidential election the average age of voting equipment in the U.S.…

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