Today's Free-Lance Start has an article Time running out to register to vote in upcoming primary.
The June primary will serve as the first run for the county's new touch-screen voting machines. The 145 machines from Advanced Voting Solutions of Frisco, Texas, bore a price tag of more than $494,000--all of which was footed by the federal government.
Tax dollars at work. How many counties are there in Virginia?
Advanced Voting Solutions was among six vendors of digital election systems that teamed up with ITAA to launch the Election Technology Council (ETC). Harris Miller's job was to take the heat for them, back when he opposed paper trails.
From A Short but Tragic History of E-voting Public Relations
In Virginia, a 2003 school board race was called into question when voters had trouble casting their ballots for one candidate on Advanced Voting Solutions machines. Her opponent won by one percent.