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Article: EDITORIAL: Too much uncertainty: Primary-election flaws in Cuyahoga County raise concerns statewide.(Editorial)
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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Aug. 21--Athree-month review of Cuyahoga County's May 2 primary election generated more questions than answers. Ohioans need answers. The key question is whether new electronic voting machines supplied by Diebold of North Canton are flawed or whether poll workers' inexperience with the new system caused the problems. Poll workers' errors certainly played a role in the discrepancies discovered in a $341,000 study by a San Francisco consulting company. Missing data prevented the consultant, Election Science Institute, from assessing the accuracy of the Diebold machines. In the audit of 467 voting machines from 50 polling locations, the study found that electronic ...