GOP Prosecutor takes OH SOS Brunner to Court Over Paper Ballots

[mod mom]

Local court to decide fight over ballots
Union County says Brunner cannot force paper option
Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:10 AM
BY BRUCE CADWALLADER
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Union County prosecutor accused the state's elections chief yesterday of abusing her authority by requiring counties to offer paper ballots in the March 4 primary -- and he said Union County won't pay for them.

Prosecutor David W. Phillips said that his county, like 56 others in Ohio, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on electronic voting machines since 2005 and the machines have provided accurate results.

Phillips, a Republican, spoke in an emergency hearing late yesterday afternoon in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Phillips said that requiring paper ballots would cost his county at least $68,000 for materials and require additional poll workers.

The hearing was called because Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, succeeded in having a lawsuit filed by Union County transferred to Columbus.

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/02/09/ebrown.ART_ART_02-09-08_B3_GO9AC8S.html?sid=101

[monktonman]

1. Typical puke afraid of a little piece of paper. n/t

[jwirr]

2. And if he were asked to buy a hummer for Iraq war he would jump

with joy. Asses.

[zbdent]

3. correction ... Phillips and the county spent hundreds of thousands of dollars

repaying Diebold for their campaign contributions and as payment for getting them elected/re-elected ...

[mopinko]

4. require extra poll workers?

how does that work?