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FILE - People vote on Election Day at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Nov. 8, 2016. The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They were deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck, and don’t produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate. What to do about them is another story.

FILE - Kirk Redmann gives a thumbs up after casting his ballot at St. Dominic's School, on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016, in New Orleans. The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They were deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck, and don’t produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate. What to do about them is another story.

FILE - Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin hosts the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., July 8, 2022. In 2021 Ardoin shelved another voting systems replacement attempt after the process was challenged by voting machine companies that claimed favoritism for the state’s current vendor, Dominion Voting Systems.

FILE - VotingWorks displays a precinct scanner with a voter-facing screen that collapses into a tamper-evident ballot box on wheels during the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., July 8, 2022. In 2018, the nation’s top homeland security and cybersecurity officials urged states to replace any remaining voting systems without a paper trail to improve security and increase public confidence. Congress allocated $805 million ahead of the 2020 election to help states pay for security upgrades, including new equipment.

FILE - People vote on Election Day at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Nov. 8, 2016. The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They were deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck, and don’t produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate. What to do about them is another story.

FILE - Kirk Redmann gives a thumbs up after casting his ballot at St. Dominic's School, on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016, in New Orleans. The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They were deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck, and don’t produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate. What to do about them is another story.

FILE - Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin hosts the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., July 8, 2022. In 2021 Ardoin shelved another voting systems replacement attempt after the process was challenged by voting machine companies that claimed favoritism for the state’s current vendor, Dominion Voting Systems.

FILE - VotingWorks displays a precinct scanner with a voter-facing screen that collapses into a tamper-evident ballot box on wheels during the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., July 8, 2022. In 2018, the nation’s top homeland security and cybersecurity officials urged states to replace any remaining voting systems without a paper trail to improve security and increase public confidence. Congress allocated $805 million ahead of the 2020 election to help states pay for security upgrades, including new equipment.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute.

They are badly outdated — deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck -- and do not produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate.

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