PA county residents preferred paper ballots
Rural Bedford County is in predominately red southern central PA, 13th District (former Shuster (R) retired 9th district) saw high demand for paper ballots. Many precincts saw 60-70% Republican turnout matching ’16 and double ’14 turnouts.
http://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2018/11/bedford-sees-large-demand-for-ballots/
“Bedford sees large demand for ballots - Voters burn through polls’ printed supply”
Although paper ballots are largely obsolete, they were in demand throughout Bedford County, where an unexpected surge in voters burned through the printed supply Tuesday afternoon during the midterm election.
Polling places in Bedford County ran out of paper ballots Tuesday, and county workers were sent to deliver more, said Debra Brown, chief clerk director of elections.
“We mostly run on paper ballots countywide. There are a lot of older people who don’t like to use the electronic polling station. But it was available,” Brown said.
County workers traveled miles to deliver more paper ballots to certain precincts, but Brown did not have a count of how many.
“I had no idea it would be like this. The turnout was historic in my opinion. I didn’t know we’d be inundated with that many voters. Generally, we 20 percent turnout. Yesterday was 58.97 percent or 18,572 voters of 31,487 total registered.
It’s a variety of ages. The county also received 896 absentee ballots or almost five times the number of absentee ballots it usually gets–200.