A proposal for improving Indiana’s election security by adding small printers to electronic touch-screen voting machines is criticized by voting rights groups as relying on ineffective and outdated technology.
The state beganto some of those machines but has allowed paperless machines to remain in use through 2029.
Republican House Speaker Todd Huston called adding the devices “an important public policy” and that he expected legislators would approve funding for counties to meet the 2024 deadline. Democratic Rep. Ed DeLaney of Indianapolis said many counties made “a terrible decision” when they bought “dangerous machines.”
Indiana remains among a handful of states still with widespread use of paperless machines, according to thewhich was among the organizations objecting to the Indiana proposal.
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