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Article: Ohio requires counties to provide paper ballots
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- January 15, 2008
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Rebecca Kelley
University Wire
01-15-2008
(The Miami Student) (UWIRE) OXFORD, Ohio -- Voters in Butler County, Ohio, will have one more decision to make at the upcoming March 4 primary -- to use paper or electronic machines when voting.
According to Jeff Ortega, assistant director of communications with Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office, Ohio election officials have issued a directive instructing 57 counties, including Butler, to offer paper ballots as an alternative to touch screen voting, the mechanism used over the last several years. To use this alternative, voters will have to request a paper ballot when entering the polls.
Ortega said the alternative voting method was ...