GIRARD — In the wake of the 2016 elections, concerns about the reliability of electronic voting machines became widespread. While Crawford County may soon buy new touch-screen voting equipment, however, residents need not be overly worried. A new state law that passed in 2018 and came into effect this year requires a paper trail for people to follow to document their voting record, although paper voting records have long been in use in Crawford County, according to County Clerk Don Pyle. On Wednesday, March 20, representatives of election equipment vendor ElectionSource were in Girard to demonstrate the uses of their various voting machines for county officials...
