Reply #7: OH: Court Hears County's Case Against Paper-Ballot Plan

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Court hears county's case against paper-ballot plan
Friday, February 8, 2008 11:06 PM
By BRUCE CADWALLADER

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Union County prosecutor accused the state's elections chief of abusing her authority by requiring counties to offer paper ballots in the March 4 primary — and he said Union County won't pay for them.

Prosecutor David W. Phillips said that his county, like 56 others in Ohio, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on electronic voting machines since 2005 and the machines have provided accurate results.

Phillips, a Republican, spoke in an emergency hearing late this afternoon in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Phillips said that requiring paper ballots would cost his county at least $68,000 for materials and require additional poll workers.

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