Northampton County exec announces director’s resignation, calls election ‘failure’ (UPDATE)
Updated: Dec. 14, 2023, 3:12 p.m.|Published: Nov. 24, 2023, 6:02 p.m.
Northampton County vote canvass and audit
Northampton County Director of Administration Charles M. Dertinger oversees a vote canvass and audit Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, of the prior week’s Municipal Election, inside the county courthouse in Easton.Kurt Bresswein file photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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By Kurt Bresswein | For lehighvalleylive.com
UPDATE: Northampton County acting director of administration appointed
In the wake of what he now calls election “failures,” Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure late Friday afternoon announced the resignation of his director of administration, Charles M. Dertinger.
The resignation follows the Nov. 7 municipal election in which a human error in programming the county’s voting machines led to incorrect paper-record printouts of votes for Pennsylvania Superior Court.
The Northampton County Election Commission Board on Tuesday nevertheless certified the election results, making them official. The results of two types of post-election audits on Friday matched the election results, county spokeswoman and Deputy Director of Administration Brittney Waylen told lehighvalleylive.com.
Referring to Dertinger, McClure’s announcement described “his Election failures of 2019 and 2023.” The November 2019 election was the first time the county used ExpressVote XL touchscreen voting machines made by Omaha, Nebraska-based Election Systems & Software (ES&S), and they malfunctioned.