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Article: Election officials have mixed reaction to Brunner plan ; Secretary of state has called for a voting machine switch, but some are worried about the cost.
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- January 4, 2008
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DAYTON -- Offering voters paper ballots as an alternative to
electronic voting machines in the March primary would be fairly
easy, but the counting of those ballots may create election night
logjams, area elections officials said.
But what has county officials even more worried is the other part
of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's proposal to eliminate
electronic voting by November's General Election because of what she
believes are unsolvable problems with the machines used in 57 Ohio
counties.
County officials look at her plan and see mounting bills and
wasted taxpayer money on machines that are typically less than three
years old.
"Who's going to pay for all this? The ...