Commissioners Delay Payment on (ES&S) Voting Machines

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The Democrats on the Vanderburgh County Commission are holding up payment of some two million dollars to the company that sold the county all those new voting machines.

And the refusal to pay features another clash between Commissioner Catherine Fanello and County Clerk Marsha Abell.

The state was reimbursed $526,000 last year for the equipment, but state officials say it was an accident since the equipment was never certified. Abell says if the commission doesn't approve the payment soon, the county could lose reimbursement dollars. Fanello says that's not the case.

It's the latest 'she said, she said' between Abell and Fanello. Abell says, "She doesn't know what she s talking about." Fanello counters, "I don't know why she's getting so upset why we're asking questions."

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