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- j He said he was concerned, not just about cost, but also that some voters may feel intimadated by the machines and stop voting. He noted that Rappahannock usually has a higher percentage voter turnout than other areas.
County Administrator John McCarthy said the conern about switching was not just the cost of the machines themselves but the cost of upkeep and providing secure storage.
County Attorney Peter Luke suggested the county might be able to rent machines and save on the cost of providing storage.
Several members of the board were ready to vote to add opposition to the law requiring voting machines to the county’s legislative agenda for the coming session of the General Assembly, when Stonewall-Hawthorn District representative Robert Anderson said, “It’s obvious none of you have wives who work the polls, I’ll never vote for that.” Roberta Anderson works the polls at Scrabble. Poll workers have to be at the polling place from before the polls open at 6 a.m. until after all the votes are tallied, usually after midnight.
The supervisors agreed to ask Mr. McCarthy to do some research on options for voting machines for the December meeting.
Assembly Session
The supervisors signed on to the majority of proposals of Region 7 of the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) for the 1996 session of the
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