Reply #22: (OH) Lawmaker asks more time on voting machines [View All]

[Wilms]

Lawmaker asks more time on voting machines

By Jim Siegel
Enquirer Columbus Bureau

Ohio Sec. of State Ken Blackwell testifies Monday in front of the U.S. Committee on House Administration.
The Associated Press/Jay LaPrete

COLUMBUS - As state lawmakers remain divided over what Ohio's new voting machines should look like, one House member Monday asked federal officials to extend the deadline for when those machines must be in place.

Rep. Kevin DeWine, R-Fairborn, sponsor of the legislature's latest election reform bill, asked the U.S. Committee on House Administration to give Ohio until 2008 to pick new voting machines, instead of the current May 2006 deadline.

The committee and its chairman, Rep. Bob Ney, R-St. Clairsville, were in Columbus to talk about the 2004 election and Ohio's progress implementing Help America Vote Act requirements.

Lawmakers said extending the deadline likely would leave old punch-card voting machines in place in 69 counties for at least two more years of elections, including the 2006 governor's race.

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