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Springfield Plans To Upgrade Voting Machines

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published April 28, 2021 at 10:38 AM EDT

The city of Springfield’s Election Office is looking to buy a new vote tabulation system and more than 70 new voting machines for local polling places.

Election Commissioner Gladys Oyola-Lopez said some of the voting machines in use now are 30 years old. Upgrading will make election operations smoother and more secure.

She spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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