Reply #31: OH: Officials back optical scan

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Geauga County elections officials credit their history of smooth elections, in part, to their 1993 choice of an optical-scan system.

"The optical-scan system is the only way to run an election," long-time Elections Board member Joe Weiss said Friday, amid the controversy surrounding recent findings by an independent study that Ohio's election process is flawed and counties need to switch to optical-scan voting machines.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recently commissioned an independent report on Ohio's electronic voting systems, which concluded that the use of touch-screen voting machines have "critical security failures" because of a lack of reliable backup paper records.
The federally funded $1.9 million study, "The Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing," also concluded that touch-screen machines pose a serious security risk because their results can be manipulated easily.

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http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19194945&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=6