Warren County OH again, shine a light on Warren on this MSM blog

[roseBudd]

The traffic on this blog tonight and tomorrow will be phenomanal.

If you can't be in Warren County watching the tabulation write about everything you know about Warren County here so the newspaper reporters will have to investgate it.

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/2006/11/warren-struggles-with-absentee-ballots.asp#comments

Warren struggles with absentee ballots

Jacob Dirr reporting:

Warren County officials are experiencing difficulty scanning in absentee and mailed in ballots, Warren County Administrator David Gully said.

Warren County received about 10,000 mail-in ballots this year, which are “way more” than past elections, Gully said.

The scanning machines are having trouble reading ballots that were crumpled or wrinkled in the mail-in process, Gully said. Although the machines are designed to be fed several hundred ballots at a time, election workers here have to feed them individually, Gully said.

In some cases, election workers are transcribing votes to fresh ballots when individual ballots are not scanning correctly, Gully said.

Gully did not know how many had to be transcribed. Gully said the machines, made by Election Systems & Software, cost $45,000.

[EFerrari]

1. What with this "transcribing" ballots all of a sudden?

First Santa Clara Co in CA and now Warren Co.

I've never heard of such a thing.

Is this even legal?

:wtf:

[mod mom]

2. Really...WTF!

[Wilms]

3. At least in some states, it's legal.

If the ballot is jamming, but legible, they can do it, again, at least in some states.

There would be procedures to be followed in doing so.

[roseBudd]

4. Yeah but in Warren County, who is watching?

[roseBudd]

5. They gave up and decided to go home, look for the story tromorrow

in the Enquirer

[mod mom]

6. From Enq Political Blog: 2 missing Hamilton Co precincts?

Anyone seen some votes lying around?


There are two missing precincts in Hamilton County, both in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati 13-H is in North Avondale and votes at the Rescue Temple Church, 824 Mann Place.

Precinct 6-B is just three blocks from the Board of Elections in the southwestern corner of downtown, and votes at Christ Church Cathedral, 318 E. Fourth St.

Elections officials don't yet know where they are.

[liam_laddie]

7. per Jene Galvin's report at ~10 a.m.

Wulsin - 49.5 %, Schmidt - 50%, with ~ 10,000 absentees in Hamilton remaining to be counted. It AIN'T over...
Also, those two missing precincts?