More voting machine drama?

During the recent county budget hearings, there was some mention of allotting $200k to the County Commissioners' budget for new voting machines. But what machines are they planning to buy? I haven't been able to get an answer to this question, but I'm currently looking into this.

Here's the backstory: Microvote feels that following Indiana's election laws - or even notifying election officials about major software changes - is not something they need to do. As a result, the Microvote Inifinity machines were decertified, and the Indiana Election Commission banned the sale or lease of Microvote machines for 18 months - meaning no machines can be purchased until January 1, 2010. Currently, Monroe County uses a combination of the older Microvote machines and the newer Infinity machines, but the older machines will not be submitted for recertification in 2010. This means that Monroe County will need to purchase a large number of new voting machines.

In no particular order, here's my questions about the allowance for machines in this year's budget:

1. What machines are going to be purchased, since we can't legally purchase Microvote machines?
2. Why are we allocating funds to purchase machines next year, when there's no election and we can't buy Microvote systems?
3. During the budget hearings, there was some discussion about a panel to select new machines. How will the members of this panel be chosen?
4. How does the cost of our cyclical DRE machine purchases compare with using a more basic paper ballot method?

During Monroe County's current budget crunch, these questions should be answered.