CONWAY — Selectmen on Tuesday voted 4-0 to buy two voting machines and other new technology to aid voter check-in at the primaries in September. Selectmen’s chair Mary Carey Seavey was absent; vice chair Carl Thibodeau led the meeting.
The board voted to spend $26,575 on two VotingWorks machines and six Poll Pad stations and related incidentals. The money will come from American Rescue Plan Act funds.
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