Thread: ACLU: Ohio Voting Switch May Be Illegal

ACLU: Ohio Voting Switch May Be Illegal

Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:00 PM

CLEVELAND -- The American Civil Liberties Union urged the elections board in the state's most populous county on Thursday not to make a switch to a new voting system for the state's March presidential primary, warning that the move could violate state law.

The Cuyahoga County board is moving to abandon electronic touch-screen voting for a system in which voters fill out paper ballots that are sent to and tallied at a central location by an optical scan computer.

ACLU staff attorney Carrie Davis said a lawsuit was possible over the issue. The group raised its concerns in a letter delivered to the board.

The main dispute is whether a central optical scan of ballots at the board's headquarters downtown would result in votes not being counted on ballots that are incorrectly filled out. The ACLU believes the intent of election law is to ensure voters can be notified immediately of a voting error and be able to make a second-chance vote.

Patrick Gallaway, a spokesman in Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office, said it's possible for precinct-based scanners to be used in Cuyahoga County to scan ballots or voters to determine if they contain any errors.

Many voting problems were reported in Ohio in the 2004 race between President Bush, a Republican, and Democrat John Kerry, including the accuracy of vote totals in precincts using electronic machines. Kerry conceded the election after narrowly losing Ohio's 20 electoral votes.

http://www.newsmax.com/us/ohio_voting_m ... 60127.html

LOL just what we need
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The Cuyahoga County board is moving to abandon electronic touch-screen voting for a system in which voters fill out paper ballots that are sent to and tallied at a central location by an optical scan computer.

Paper ballots can't be hacked or electronically 'changed'.

“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.â€

Paper ballots can't be hacked or electronically 'changed'.

I think the ballots are supposed to be electronically read

paper ballots that are sent to and tallied at a central location by an optical scan computer.

Anytime the ACLU is involved, question it!! The most non-American organization in the USofA.

I think electonic voting machines would be okay, if a paper ballot was printed out, making it possible to check for errors against the machine.

Sosadforus wrote:

Anytime the ACLU is involved, question it!! The most non-American organization in the USofA.

My thoughts exactly. If the ACLU is for something, I am against it.

“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.â€

I swear the ACLU really needs to be investigated and charged with treason!