Cuyahoga County Wants Yet Another Vote System (OH)

[OhioChick]

POSTED: 7:58 pm EDT June 21, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The state's most populous county wants to stick with the company from which it rented voting equipment during the March primary, recommending a deal that would put in place the county's third voting system since 2006.

Cuyahoga County's Board of Elections on Friday voted 3-1 to select a ballot-scanning system from Omaha, Neb.-based vendor Election Systems & Software. The system, which will cost $13.4 million, includes about 1,500 scanners that will be installed in every precinct in the heavily Democratic county for the November presidential contest, Elections Director Jane Platten said.

Cuyahoga, which includes Cleveland and its suburbs, rented 15 high-speed scanners from the vendor for the March 4 primary, when the county switched to paper ballots and counted them at a central location, Platten said.

That came after Cuyahoga in December scrapped, at the order of Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a $21 million touch-screen electronic system that was less than two years old. The county switched to touch-screen from punch-card ballots in May 2006.

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/16675364/detail.html

[Dr.Phool]

1. It seems that Cuyahoga County can't get anything right.

And, I mean anything. So glad I don't live there anymore.