Reply #20: OH: Elections board considers new paper supplier to avoid delays

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Elections board considers new paper supplier to avoid delays

By TOM GIAMBRONI
POSTED: May 14, 2008

LISBON —The Columbiana County elections board is taking steps to prevent a repeat of the March primary election when voters were late receiving absentee ballots.

On Tuesday, the board met with Bill Glaros, a sales representative for City Printing of Youngstown, which is interested in being the elections board’s new paper ballot supplier. Glaros said they could guarantee meeting the delivery date, thereby avoiding the problem that occurred prior to the March 4 primary election, when the printing company used by the elections board was two weeks late delivering the absentee ballots.

By then, more than 1,000 people had applied to vote absentee, creating a backlog that took the staff weeks to address, frustrating voters who were concerned if they would receive their absentee ballot in time for the election.

Voters in the Nov. 4 general election can begin picking up absentee ballots on Sept. 30, and Glaros said his company needs only two weeks advance notification to have the ballots ready by then. There are 67,000 registered voters in the county, and 70,000 ballots were ordered for the March election at a cost of about $20,000.

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