All-Nighter in Cleveland?

[Algorem]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/03/04/all-nighter-in-cleveland/?mod=googlenews_wsj

March 4, 2008, 3:37 pm
All-Nighter in Cleveland?

June Kronholz reports on the presidential race.

Get ready for a long night, political junkies: Cleveland’s ballot count may not end until breakfast is on the table.


Cleveland’s last-minute switch back to paper ballots from electronic touchscreens seems to be running smoothly, but the real test will come late this evening when the election board starts counting an estimated 450,000 ballots on just 15 optical scanners.

After years of troubles with touchscreen voting here, Ohio’s secretary of state ordered Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga County to abandon their electronic voting machines in December. Voter-advocacy groups, much as they distrusted the machines, were almost as horrified at the paper ballots.

The sudden switch left little time to train workers and the public in a new voting system, they warned. That, at least, doesn’t seem to be a problem as voters turn out in what appear to be moderate numbers. Voters in several inner-city precincts grumbled that shelving the equipment “wastes tax dollars,” but coped easily with fill-in-the-bubble ballots...


GOP questions Cuyahoga County ballot pickups

http://blog.dispatch.com/primary/2008/03/gop_questions_cuyahoga_county.shtml

The Ohio Republican Party is complaining that “the integrity of the election in Cuyahoga County has been put in question” because Republicans were not involved in the midday pickup of some paper ballots.

A state law enacted recently to allow the midday pickup, sought as a way to help speed up the processing of ballots, required that bipartisan teams be used to collect ballots at polling locations for delivery to a central location for counting.

But Ohio GOP field staff in Cuyahoga County reported that ballots are being picked up, transported and delivered exclusively by Democrats, the Republicans said in a news release. According to the statement, two self-identified Democrats were in a van carrying ballots from the McKinley Elementary School in Lakewood to the central location. There were no Republicans with these ballots in transit, the party said.

“It's questionable enough that ballots are being put in boxes and placed in cars to drive around the county, but to remove bipartisan oversight of the ballots while being collected and in transport threatens the integrity of the system,” Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine said in a statement...

[mod mom]

1. I used a paper ballot and surprised the judges. Very flimsy cardboard box w

large slit and plastic locks.

[islandmkl]

2. less of a hassle at the dump...

[FlyingSquirrel]

3. All together now for the benefit of the Repugs.......

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[liberal N proud]

4. I lived in Missouri for 20 years and used paper ballots all those years

It never took all night to count the votes.
This is a myth generated to justify the electronic monsters they have been pushing.