LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — The Luzerne County Council is discussing a switch from voting machines to paper ballots.

Council Chair John Lombardo says part of the reason for this change, an effort to preserve election integrity. The county experienced a paper shortage for the November 2022 election. Since then, the election office has taken extra precautions.

County Council Chair John Lombardo says, "I know that in the past, since 2022, we have ensured that there are literally millions of sheets of paper in our elections warehouse at any one period of time. We have processes that have been put in place so that no polling place will run out of paper at any time; they have the required amount of paper, and that's part of the normal checklist of approving the machines when they get sent to the p

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