Reply #12: Board of Elections still waiting for decision on new voting machines in Oh [View All]

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From The Athens News of Athens, Ohio:
2005-03-10

Board of Elections still waiting for decision on new voting machines in Ohio

By Nick Claussen

In a case of true irony, the decision on new voting machines for Athens County could be delayed because the Athens County Board of Elections may have voted improperly.

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Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell said every county in Ohio has to switch to the optical-scan machines, and that each county can pick either machines offered by Diebold Election Systems or machines sold by Election Systems and Software.

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On Feb. 9, the Athens County Board of Elections voted 2-2, along party lines, with Democrats Susan Gwinn and William Lavelle voting for the Elections Systems and Software machines, and Republicans Howard Stevens and Dick Mottl voting for the Diebold Election Systems machines.

The board members said at the time that because they could not reach a decision, they believed Blackwell would choose a system for the county by drawing a name out of a hat.

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"We still don't know," Gwinn said. She explained that apparently only one or two other counties in Ohio had not been able to make a decision on voting machines and had forwarded the decision to Blackwell. She added that the decision on Athens County's voting machines might have been delayed because of legal issues.

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