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Ashtabula County steams ahead with its voting system


By MARK TODD - Staff Writer - [e-mail]
Star Beacon

JEFFERSON — No news is apparently good news for the Ashtabula County Board of Elections, which believes the state has endorsed the use of its optical scanning machines to count ballots in the March 4 primary.

Unlike some other Ohio counties, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has not ordered Ashtabula County to consider a different type of tabulating system for the upcoming election, Richard Hornstein, election board director, said Friday.

“We’re still good,” he said.

Earlier this month, Brunner told counties that use touch-screen technology to count votes to return to a paper ballot system. Problems with Cuyahoga County’s equipment soured Brunner on the touch-screen method, she said.

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