A young child waits for her mom to finish voting at Phillis Wheatley Community School in New Orleans on May 15. Many voting machines in Louisiana are decades old. Kathleen Flynn/Getty Images hide caption

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America's voting systems are getting old.

Take Louisiana, for instance, where many Gen Z and Millennial voters cast primary ballots this month using machines that were older than they were .

Election officials there talk about having to "cannibalize" parts from dead machines to service others.

"Replacement parts are no longer manufactured," Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry told a state Senate committee earlier this year. "Simply put, the [election] system has reached the end of its life cycle."

A new report out Friday shows the state is not alone in that regard.

If not replaced, by the next presidential election the average age of voting equipment in the U.S.…