Reply #34: District 2 Summary of voting machines by J30: [View All]

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Executive summary:  Brown County will be using a new precinct-count
> optical-scan system, Clermont County will be using their old central-count
> optical-scan system, and the five other counties voting in tomorrow's OH2
> election will be using their old punch-card systems.
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> Today I spoke with someone at six of the seven county boards of elections for
> Congressional District 2, which has the election tomorrow, with reports as
> follows:
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> Adams County (35 precincts) will be using their 2004 machines (punch card).
> They have received new machines, which are expected to be checked out by
> someone from the Secretary of State office this Thursday or Friday, and they
> plan to use the new machines in November.
> 
> Brown County (35 precincts) used punch cards in 2004, but will be using new
> optical scan machines in the Aug 2 special election.  I believe the new system
> is precinct-count optical-scan (PCOS), where voters have one machine available
> in each precinct to allow the voter to check validity of the ballot, which
> should reduce the possibility of overvotes and undervotes (which should be
> highly unlikely in a contest with only two candidates for a single office, but
> who knows what might be possible when write-ins are allowed).
> 
> Clermont County (191 precincts) will use the same setup as in 2004, with
> voters marking optical-scan ballots in each precinct, and all ballots being
> counted at the board offices, using four optical-scan readers.
> 
> Hamilton County (319 precincts in special primary; 1,013 precincts in 2004
> general election) had a voice-mail system with a wait for a live person to
> talk to, so I am assuming that they will still use the punch card system used
> in 2004.
> 
> Pike County (24 precincts) will be using punch cards, as in 2004.  They have
> received new machines which have been checked out, and expect to use them for
> the November election.
> 
> Scioto County (106 precincts) will be using punch cards, as in 2004.  They
> have decided to use optical scan in future elections, and that might be
> possible by November.
> 
> Warren County (79 precincts in special primary; 157 precincts in 2004 general
> election) will be using punch cards, as in 2004.  Person I talked to offered
> to let me talk to the director about future machine use, but I declined.
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