Franklin County to get ES&S machines

[ArchTeryx]

From the Columbus Dispatch:

Elections board Director Matthew Damschroder said the number of new machines — one for every 166 Franklin County voters — will "more than handle" a high-turnout election like last November’s. Franklin County deployed 2,818 machines for the 2004 election — one for every 300 voters — and critics claimed rain-soaked, hours-long waits caused some to give up and leave.

he iVotronic machines from ES &S use touch-screen technology similar to automated teller machines at banks. They also include a printer under glass that allows voters to see their choices logged on the machine’s paper tape.

That feature was ordered by Ohio legislators last year.

According to Anthony, board members preferred ES &S because its printout feature was part of the machine. Diebold added a printer to meet the state requirement, but Anthony said in one county officials visited it was held to a voting machine with duct tape.

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It's something of a victory, if not an unmixed one. I'll believe the long lines in Democratic precincts will go away only when elections are taken out of the hands of partisans. But combined with Reform Ohio Now!, these machines might actually give a chance at clean elections in Franklin County.

[iconoclastNYC]

1. What good is the paper records

If they can disregard recount law and get away with it?

(as they did with the cheat-sheets)