The Brief
- Seminole County elections staff discovered a small printer part kept breaking or falling out during transport.
- Replacing full printer trays would have been costly with about 150 machines in use.
- A Lake Mary High School sophomore created a 3D-printed replacement part, helping save the county about $16,000.
LAKE MARY, Fla. – With local elections coming up in August, Seminole County is already making sure everything is ready to go.
But when a small issue popped up with some of the county’s printers, the solution came from an unexpected place: a student at Lake Mary High School.
The county uses about 150 printers during election season. Officials said a small plastic piece inside some of those ballot-on-demand printers kept breaking or falling out during transport.…