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The future of voting takes center stage in Lehigh County. Officials rolled out new electronic voting machines today. Their goal is that everyone understands how they work before election day.

WFMZ's Carl Madonna is live outside the government center in Allentown with more.
Carl?

If you plan on voting in May you better be ready for even longer lines at the polls.
That's because voters will be using the latest technology this time around.
Technology that's raising some eyebrows tonight.

Don Cunningham:
8:34 "...it's kind of like ordering a hoagie at Wawa."
Madonna:
If you've never ordered a hoagie from Wawa the new voting machines could be a little tricky.
STAND UP:
28:02 With anything new comes some trepidation. To try and ease some of those concerns over this new technology Lehigh County officials are going to put this machine on display so you can actually get your hands on it for the next two months."
Don:
6:25 "...to malls, different locations, at city hall, borough halls, people can come in use machine and get used to it."
-- "...if people call in here we will make arrangements if they call the county we will try to get the machines to them."
Madonna:
Some like Daniel Lopresti, a computer science and engineering professor at Lehigh, fear the new electronic voting machines made by Diebold, can be manipulated by hackers.
Daniel Lopresti:
15:30 "...a hacker could in theory if they were able to access these machines, and alter the results and it would be completely impossible to detect."
Bob Diekmann:
23:46 "...the hacker related problems quite frankly are glorified on internet blog sites but in essence are not validated by any real life situations."
Madonna:
And then there's the concern of no paper audit trail to solidify election results when they come rolling in.
Daniel:
15:12 "...a record of the election on paper and therefore much less to be altered by an opponent someone trying to change the results of the election."
Bob:
25:15 "...we don't have a dog in that fight so to speak. We have developed a paper trail, it's used in Ohio and California. Pennsylvania has chosen not to use that."

So what about the old lever machines?
We're told they will be stored here at the government center and locked away just in case the new machines aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Now if you can't make it out to one these demonstrations you can take a tour of the new machine, see how it works by going to the databank section of our website -- wfmz.com.
We're live in Allentown, I'm Carl Madonna, 69 News.