There Goes $20 Million
From the PD
Ohio’s elections chief has no confidence in Cuyahoga County’s current voting system and has suggested dumping the more than $20 million touch-screen voting system before the March 4 presidential primary.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is pushing the Board of Elections for a quick decision because of the time needed to roll out a new system.
“We all understand there is not a lot of time to delay,” said Sandy McNair, one of the four members on the elections board.
Another great legacy of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
If they are unreliable in Cuyahoga County aren’t they unreliable state-wide? I’ve worked with these machines extensively and have found them very reliable.
The March election is going to be a fiasco anyway because the date has been moved up. Many pollworkers are retirees that spend the winter in Florida.
The machines worked without a major hitch everywhere except Cuyahoga County - but it’s the machines fault. It couldn’t possibly the people.
Think about it: a lot harder to manipulate a recount with a computer print out than it is with a ballot you mark on. This is a set up so that the Dems can throw out votes that are “unreadable” in hand recounts. They know they have the numbers in Crooked River County, but they need to make sure they can toss out any ballot that could possibly be voting for R’s. We never had these problems with punch ballot. To pay for this fiasco get ready for 10% sales tax Crooked River County taxpayers. We love you Boss Dimora and Taxin’ Tim!
give the good people of Cuyahoga a pencil and paper like you get at Putt Putt if that’s what they “need” but don’t make the rest of the state and country pay for their downright plain incompetence. this is clearly the groundwork being laid for Brunner and the dems plans to maneuver, delay, or change the results of the true vote in the next presidential election - write it down: Brunner and crew will do anything and everything they can to make Ohio the Palm Beach of 2008, and you are seeing the foundation being built right now. the system works in 87 of 88 counties just fine, except, gee, a few other precincts in good ole Columbus, Dayton, etc. - you don’t have to be smarter than a fifth grader to see what’s going on here.
We are all watching a train wreck in slow motion. We just can’t look away.
To even consider changing systems at this stage is foolish. Why must Cuyahoga change when Diebold systems are in use throughout the state?
Also don’t forget the optical scan fiasco of May 2006-why is optical scan the preferred method?
Of course Brunner is the tie-breaking vote should the board of Election deadlock, but let’s let her be. Then the upcoming March 2008 fiasco will be at the hands of the Democrats alone.
This is nuts on so many levels.
First, because in 2000 a few idiots in Florida didn’t push their chads all the way through, the liberals cried “do away with paper ballots,” the GOP went along, and HAVA was born. Election administration has always been the responsibility of the states, but HAVA basically federalized it.
Then, four years later, the liberals panicked again and said that now we can’t trust the electronic voting machines and we need a “voter verifiable paper audit trail” (VVPAT) with every electronic machine. That forced many of the electronic machines to be retro-fitted with a printer.
The punch card system was perfectly reliable and provided the VVPAT that the liberals wanted. Plus, it could not be hacked.
As far as I’m concerned, HAVA has required the waste of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
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