NC judge won't halt use of touchscreen vote-mark machines

An investigator with the Office of the City Commissioners, demonstrates the ExpressVote XL voting machine at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, United States in June 2019. — AP

RALEIGH, N.C.: Touchscreen ballot-marking machines will remain in use in North Carolina, United States, this fall, a judge ruled in a case in which voters questioned the equipment's accuracy and health risks during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The state NAACP join the four voters who demanded in April that the ExpressVote machines – used in roughly 20 of the state's 100 counties in one way or another – be barred from future elections. They wanted hand-marked paper ballots used instead.