State House members are scheduled to take their first vote Friday using a new system to record their yays and nays.

State employees have installed a new system to record and display votes. It features touch-screen pads on lawmaker desks.

The Olympian reports ( http://bit.ly/11kgMfG) the new system costs about $670,000 but lawmakers from both parties agreed it was needed to replace a 15-year-old roll-call system that would freeze up.

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Information from: The Olympian, http://www.theolympian.com