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Article: Brunner: Paper ballots worked despite delays ; Counting of paper ballots lasts into Wednesday night

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November 6, 2008
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Ohio's top election official said Wednesday, Nov. 5, that she chose to vote using a paper ballot on Election Day after seeing the lines at her polling place.

"I don't think they were overused," Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said on Wednesday, Nov. 5, during a news conference.

"We really tried to use the backup paper ballots as not a de facto second voting system but as simply a safety net and as a best practice so that we wouldn't have lengthy lines that could disenfranchise people on Election Day."

Montgomery, Franklin, Stark and Butler counties all missed the noon Wednesday deadline for completing final, unofficial results because of problems counting paper ballots. All use ...

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