Well ahead of a municipal election in the fall of 2026, Belleville city council agreed Tuesday to finance the rental of equipment needed to register voters’ casted ballots.

The city agreed in March of this year to the use of alternative internet and telephone voting paving the way for its latest decision to spend $142,400 for the necessary election hardware.

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Traditional paper ballots will continue to be offered at voting stations across the city next year after a decision by council to restore paper ballots at advance voting stations.

The rented machines, meanwhile, will enable the “use of the alternative voting methods internet and telephone voting that do not require electors to attend a voting place in order to vote along with the use of paper ballots and tabulato

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