Electors already challenging electronic voting machines in Pennsylvania asked Commonwealth Court on Friday to stop Northampton and two other counties from buying a new electronic voting system to replace one decertified last year.

Northampton County already has placed a $1.7 million order for 300 refurbished AVC Advantage machines from Sequoia Voting Systems for use in the April 22 primary. The county has set aside $2 million for the purchase and will be reimbursed up to just over $2 million by the state.

The county’s old electronic touch-screen system, from Texas-based Advanced Voting Solutions Inc., was decertified last year by state and federal officials because of testing and certification issues. Northampton used its old mechanical lever machines in November, but is prohibited by law from using them in April’s federal election.

The injunction request filed Friday said the action doesn’t seek to prevent the use of electronic machines ‘‘currently certified and already purchased, but merely to prevent the state from permitting counties to spend $4 million of state money on purchasing new machines which are the subject of this litigation and which, if petitioners prevail, will have to be sold for scrap.’‘
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