San Mateo County, CA to Rent Hart eSlates

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

From Daily Voting News by John Gideon on the Brad Blog:

http://insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3650183

San Mateo County can't comply with a federal law that requires  
handicapped-accessible voting machines at every polling place by the  
June 6 election, Elections Chief Warren Slocum said Tuesday.
Instead, the county will rent about 10 of the new electronic voting  
machines for the primary, with the goal of equipping all 270 polling  
places by November.
Most voters will continue to use the same paper ballots and optical  
scan counting machines that have been in place for 15 years.
Slocum blamed the delay on the 11th-hour certification of the eSlate  
machine the county wants to use. Manufacturer Hart InterCivic of  
Austin, Texas, said it can't deliver the machines by June 6.

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Even if the eSlate machines were available by June, Slocum said he is  
still not comfortable making the $3.5 million investment.