Early-voting sites have problems, official says

The first installment of a $17 million contract to buy the computers that will make it possible to vote a week before the Nov. 7 election was approved reluctantly Wednesday by the Board of Public Works.

But state Elections Administrator Linda Lamone told the governor, treasurer and comptroller that 10 of the 21 early-voting sites identified in the law “have problems” and substitutes must be found. This includes all three sites in Howard all three in Montgomery counties, two in Anne Arundel County and one each in Baltimore and Harford counties.