Using new voting system

WARREN

The Trumbull County Board of Elections will have the first of five training sessions today for the public to learn how to use the county’s new paper-based voting system, which will be used May 7.

The first session will be 4 to 6 p.m. today at the SCOPE Center, 375 N. Park Ave. Other sessions will be: 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Niles SCOPE Center, 14 E. State St., Niles; 5:30 to 7 p.m. next Tuesday at New Jerusalem Fellowship Church, 2555 Palmyra Road SW; 5:30 to 7 p.m. April 3 at the Newton Falls Administration Building, 19 N. Canal St., Newton Falls; and 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 6 at Christ Episcopal Church Hall, 2627 Atlantic St., NE.

The elections board purchased a $1.3 million paper system from Election System & Software of Omaha, Neb.