Mercer renewed its arrangement with Dominion in March, authorizing a $2.8 million deal for equipment and support services. Now, NJ County is reporting a problem with Dominion voting systems.
To guarantee that the county could count every vote on Tuesday, Mercer County authorities inked a $2.8 million contract with Dominion Voting Systems this past March.
The whole system unexpectedly collapsed on election day.
It is still unclear exactly what transpired in Mercer County. Although all votes cast on paper ballots were ultimately processed, the problem attributable to an unidentified coding error on the ballots caused the counting to take all night and irritated several voters.
On Wednesday, officials announced that they had started an investigation. However, they claimed that the Dominion scanners set up to check those votes as they were cast were not accepting the coding markings printed on the paper ballots.
There is still no clear explanation for why that happened....