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Article: Increase in paper ballots, 'fried' card cause delays

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November 13, 2008
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TROY -- Miami County's Board of Elections planned and planned for the Nov. 4 presidential election, adding voting machines and staff and meeting weekly for a month before the big day.

Still, the board, staff and volunteers were wrapping up ballot counting at 4 a.m. Nov. 5.

Processing paper ballots -- offered by a secretary of state order as an option to touch screen voting machines -- delayed release of results first.

"We got lots more paper than we anticipated," said Roger Luring, elections board chairman. "We are running two systems now."

Then, with just a few hundred paper ballots to count, a memory card (in the words of Luring) "fried."

The equipment malfunction around midnight Nov. ...

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