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Jennifer Brunner's increasingly expensive proposition
Published on Tuesday, Mar 04, 2008
Brunner based the lower figure on having multiple precincts vote at the same location. Such ''voting centers,'' as she also proposed, would ease staffing shortages and hold down the cost of purchasing new equipment. After local election officials said the change would be too disruptive, she put the voting centers on hold. Thus, she explained, more optical scanning machines must be purchased.
As it stands, moving ahead with the conversion (ultimately affecting 57 counties) depends on finding the money, Ohio having already spent around $100 million on electronic voting under the Help America Vote Act. Speaker Jon Husted, a Kettering Republican, wisely says he wants to hear more from the local officials who, under Ohio law, actually conduct elections. The statewide organization representing election officials recommends improved training and security, rather than scrapping touch-screen voting.
The latest cost figure from Brunner makes that argument all the more compelling.
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