Cuyahoga County’s Voting Machines

The Cleveland Plain Dealer offers this editorial on the lingering uncertainty in Ohio’s largest county over the voting equipment to be used in November. The issue is whether Cuyahoga County will use precinct-based scanners that gives voters notice of overvotes. The Ohio legislature passed this statute requiring precinct-based counting (see 3506.21(D)), and the board of election enacted this resolution in March in response to an ACLU lawsuit, but the board now says there’s not enough time and money to get the required equipment in place. (Disclosure: I consulted with the ACLU on this case.)

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