COLUMBUS, Oh. (WOWO): A new report finds that a significant number of electronic voting machines in Ohio are getting old. According to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 90% of Ohio counties are using machines that are 10 years old. Report co-author Christopher Famighetti says that's much longer than they are designed to last:

“Most of us don't keep our laptops, desktops over a decade, and that's the type of technology that most of the machines in use today are using.”

Famighetti points out that after time, machine parts including memory cards and motherboards are prone to failure. More than 40 states will use electronic voting machines in 2016 that are at least a decade old. Joshua Eck with the Secretary of State's Office says replacing the machines is just too much money to ask for many local governments.

“Voting equipment is not cheap, so it needs to be a partnership between all levels of government. The federal government is certainly going to need to be involved; the state government needs to be involved because it's an expense that's too much for just our counties to handle on their own.”

The estimated cost to replace aging machines nationally could top $1-billion.