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Article: Counties reject Brunner's proposal ; Secretary of state hoping elections officials will compromise on replacing touch screen machines with paper ballots.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- January 23, 2008
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COLUMBUS -- The people who run Ohio's elections in the state's 88
counties took a vote and it was unanimous: They don't like Secretary
of State Jennifer Brunner's plan to require most counties to replace
nearly new electronic touch screen voting machines in time for the
November general election.
"We did not have one dissenting vote," Shannon Leininger,
association president and deputy director of the Ashland County
Board of Elections said Tuesday of the vote by the group's trustees.
Like Brunner, Leininger is a Democrat.
Such decisions should be left up to individual counties, said the
Ohio Association of Election Officials, a bipartisan group that