Alabama: county in the red over the voting machine blues
The Montgomery Advertiser reports: Montgomery County officials are ready to take Alabama's chief election official to court to get back the $2 million they spent on a new voting system.
Secretary of State Nancy Worley returned the Jan. 11 reimbursement request herself, saying the county had not met her office's guidelines.
County commissioners have gone into executive session in their last two meetings to discuss Worley's decision with the county attorney. ...
Worley contends the county bought its system, which uses paper ballots and an optical scan reader to tabulate votes, before she had set purchasing guidelines and a reimbursement procedure. ...
County officials counter that Worley established her rules more than a month after the Jan. 1 deadline for compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act and after they submitted their documentation. -- montgomeryadvertiser.com�::� County might sue over $2 million vote system