We abut Allegheny County to the NW.

...rig it like they did in 2016.

now not later than next Nov.

In Lawrence County, until about 2006, we had paper ballots (like yours) in which we darkened ovals which represented our vote choices. At the end of the day, the ballots from all of the precincts were delivered to the courthouse where they were fed into electronic readers. In or around 2006, when the Lawrence County commissioners met to consider changing to electronic voting machines which would leave no paper-ballot trail, I spoke out at a commissioner's meeting to voice my disapproval to such a changeover. Of course, the Republican-controlled commissioners' board approved the changeover to electronic machines by which the vote counts could not be audited. I am grateful for Pennsylvania's present move to voting machines which leave a paper-ballot vote trail subject to physical recounting, if deemed necessary.

I love that I was born in the year of the Monkey! (1956)

been a Pa liberal since 56

‘Twas a good year to be born in PA!
Voting later today.

First time I felt like I really voted since the old lever machines!

It does a number of things including ridding us of precinct location voting. The machine generates a custom ballot for each of 3000 + precincts so eventually you will be able to vote in early voting in Houston when you live and are registered in El Paso and election day voting may pass by the wayside entirely.

There's a lot going for it. It has the advantages of speed and accuracy in counting and cost savings of excess ballot printing and it eases the burden on volunteer election workers for securing and counting every ballot used or not. It's financially incentivised because one blank ballot replaces the need to print excess ballots for each precinct. It's also voter integrity incentivised because any voting location can be audited by counting paper ballots vs the machine count.

a bill supported by Gov Wolf that will ease restrictions on absentee ballots among other things, meaning voting by mail will be much easier.

I voted bright and early this morning at my polling place (an old Lutheran church) here in Northampton county. I am happy to report that I was the first voter on our new paper ballot machine and I can tell you I was proud to vote a straight Democrat ticket in a fairly red part of the Lehigh Valley.