When voters marked their paper ballot instead of inserting it into a ballot box the voter would insert it into a scanner machine which would immediately record the vote for each candidate voted on the ballot and when the polls closed a total vote for each candidate would be available immediately and this would be forwarded to the election bureau to be counted with the votes from all of the 167 precincts in the county. The present method is, when the voter fills his ballot it is then placed into a ballot box. When the polls close the election board at the polling place brings the ballot box with the votes cast to the election center, which has been at the warehouse of the Schuylkill Transportation System bus line in Norwegian Township. At the center the ballots are removed from the ballot box and counted by electronic scanner machines. The process takes hours because of the transportation logistics and counting of thousands of ballots.
Some boards don t arrive at election center for hours after the polls closed.
Tobash also mentioned locks have been found missing from boxes. Knowles and Shadle both stated the commissioners have talked for several years about upgrading the voting procedure in the county. They now claim they should wait to see what the state s task force proposes as the state is trying to find a unified manner of voting throughout the Commonwealth. How the cost of the proposed scanners would be paid was also debated. He produced a letter from Atty.