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Article: Paper ballots clog county results
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- November 5, 2008
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DAYTON -- The Montgomery County Board of Elections stopped
issuing updates of its vote count on Tuesday, Nov. 4, until all
paper ballots could be counted, board Director Steve Harsman said.
The board issued its last update at 10:05 p.m. with 45 percent of
548 precincts partially counted. That total includes none of the
paper ballots cast on Election Day in those precincts. Harsman
estimated board workers will have to count 50,000-70,000 paper
ballots throughout the morning hours because state law prohibits
stopping a vote count once it starts. Those ballots, all of them two
or three pages long, have to be hand-fed into ...