It encouraged jurisdictions across the country to replace their old voting machines with new digital systems. The result was a massive investment in paperless touch-screen voting machines, also known as direct-recording electronic voting machines or DREs, which states came to view as simpler, cheaper and more accessible to people with disabilities. As a candidate, Pressley told voters she had grown up outside Dallas, the daughter of a cattle auctioneer. In the fall of 2018, influential Texas Republican fundraiser JoAnn Fleming urged Ramsland and Pressley to join forces, Pressley told The Post. Ramsland told potential funders that their money would support legal challenges to ensure election integrity ahead of the 2020 election, Pressley said.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2021 23:15 UTC