Not a bear

The town's assistant clerk was pretty excited that we might be getting e-poll books and maybe even new voting machines.  She was set to send poll workers to training on the new materials well before the next election in April.  This week she sent out an e-mail stating that the board hadn't approved funding for any of it.  I was curious why so asked.  She explained the new machine is over $8,000 and w/ only around 400 registered voters the board felt we could rent another voting machines if necessary.  I can understand that plus our town would be the only one on the new software in our county.  The mantra when I worked for Honeywell was, unless there's a burning need, never be the first to install new hardware/software/upgrades/ or even 'fixes'.  That all made sense.  However I was disappointed by what the county clerk said about our poll workers, "...your township was a great one to start with the changeover as I have great confidence in you girls!"  Girls?