HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania county is signaling that it won't go along with Gov. Tom Wolf's insistence that counties buy new voting systems as a security measure in 2020's election, when the state is expected to be a premier presidential battleground.

Dauphin County Commissioner Mike Pries, a Republican, said Wednesday he's comfortable with the county's old machines, particularly after hearing about paper jams, long lines and other problems in other counties that debuted new machines in last week's election.

Some of those new machines were under consideration by Dauphin County.

“There's an old saying: 'If it's not broken, don't fix it,'” Pries said in an interview. “Our machines work. They're fundamentally sound. We trust our machines. You cannot hack our machines.”

Thus far, no other county in Pennsylvania has taken such a hard line against getting new voting machines, now seven weeks before the Dec. 31 deadline that Wolf gave counties to select new machines that have an auditable paper backup.

Pennsylvania's presidential primary election is April 28, and Wolf's administration has warned lawmakers and county officials it will decertify the counties' old voting systems Dec. 31.

In last Tuesday's election, 45 of 67 counties were using new machines and more counties are expected to announce agreements to buy or lease new systems.

Wolf, a Democrat, began pressing counties last year to get new voting machines after federal authorities warned Pennsylvania and other states that Russian hackers targeted them during 2016's election.

At the time, Pennsylvania was one of 13 states where some or all voters used machines that store votes electronically without printed ballots or another paper-based backup.

HARRISBURG — A lawyer who recently served on the Allegheny County Council wants the Republican nomination next year to run for Pennsylvania attorney general.Heather Heidelbaugh, 61, of Mount Lebanon, announced this week she's seeking the job to fight the misuse of government money and the spread of illegal drugs. She calls the attorney general's job the culmination of her life's work as a lawyer. She said she plans to focus on mental health and societal problems.A spokesman for the incumbent, Democrat Josh Shapiro, said the attorney general plans to announce early next year he intends to seek re-election.Heidelbaugh is a civil trial lawyer for a firm with an office in Pittsburgh. Republican Party officials say they know of no other candidate who has publicly declared their candidacy for the GOP nomination.