(Ohio) Vote counting goes on up north

[MelissaB]

Vote counting goes on up north
Cuyahoga County's first electronic ballot is a high-tech failure

By Carl Chancellor
Beacon Journal staff writer
CLEVELAND - And they were still counting.

Early Saturday afternoon, a full 86 hours after the polls officially closed Tuesday night, workers at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections were hard at work continuing to tally the nearly four-day-old vote -- with no end in sight.

A red-eyed, neck-cracking, arm-stretching, back-twisting, yawning contingent of weary election employees, hand tabulating thousands of paper ballots, filled the desks and bank of long tables on the second floor of the board's Euclid Avenue headquarters.

``Most of our staff is in. We have between 60 and 70 people working today doing 12-hour shifts.... It's a 24-hour operation,'' said Jane Platten, an administrator of the Cuyahoga elections board.

``At this point, all of our resources are into the hand count,'' said Platten, who, like nearly all the board employees, has been virtually living at the elections office since the Tuesday primary election debacle.

J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio secretary of state, who is the state's top election official, has launched an investigation into what delayed ballot counting in Ohio's largest county, which struggled with using electronic voting for the first time.


More: http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/14519470.htm

[acmavm]

1. Oh shit, Blackwell launched an investigation. This can't be good.

[yourout]

2. You know this will be blamed on the local officials.

[BeFree]

3. They'll say:

"See, hand counting ballots takes forever."

What does this ballot look like? Why is it not counter friendly?

Someone in the underground in Cleveland needs to be reporting the story. We know the M$M won't tell the whole story.

[Berry Cool]

4. Watch this site:

http://www.clevescene.com/

Weekly alternative paper. They'll eventually get to the bottom of it.

[Sadie5]

5. When they investigate themselves

You know what the outcome will be without even asking.

[Kurovski]

7. Damage control.

K&R.

[kster]

6. K&R.nt

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. Ohio: Ground zero corruption capital of the universe. nt.

[bleever]

9. Blackwell will get to the bottom of this.

Oh wait, he IS at the bottom of this.

[nicknameless]

10. If the machines are screwing up, THEY are what's delaying the voting

and the vote counting. Other countries count all of their ballots in a matter of a few hours.

We need to get all electrons out of voting. Sorry, I don't agree with those who say it can't be done.