Mahoning County elections board sells electronic-voting machines

YOUNGSTOWN — Joyce Kale-Pesta, deputy director of the Mahoning County Board of Elections, told the board today that Election Systems Software of Omaha, Neb., purchased the board’s old electronic-voting machines for $201,250.

According to Vindicator files, the county bought the electronic touch-screen voting machines from ES&S in 2001 for $2.95 million, with most of that amount coming from the federal government.

The company was the board’s vendor for the machines, which were the last items to leave the board’s old offices at the South Side Annex on Market Street. The board’s new offices are in Oakhill Renaissance Place on Oak Hill Avenue. The county returned to paper ballots in the November 2011 election.