OH SOS Brunner Seeks Compromise w Elections Officials (on voting equipment)

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Brunner Seeks Compromise With Election Officials
Jan 23 2008 3:00PM

http://www.10tv.com/?story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200801/608995473.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Representatives of Ohio's county election officials have voted unanimously to oppose the secretary of state's recommendation that 57 Ohio counties scrap their touch-screen voting machines.

The Ohio Association of Election Officials wants counties to decide for themselves what type of voting equipment they use.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner wants touch-screen machines replaced with a paper-ballot system after a review found the machines vulnerable to tampering and hacking.

After dropping other recommendations because of opposition from local officials, Brunner now says they need to compromise on her most important goal.

If opposition continues, Brunner has other more drastic options at her disposal, such as decertifying the touch-screen machines, or removing board members of counties that go against her.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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1. The Repukes met in private to figure out how to counter Brunner in Cuyahoga County

And now we are seeing their strategy. Get the rural Ohio politicians to make a spectacle of the whole affair.

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2. Ohio Citizen Action following this:

Jan 23: Brunner: Security over cost

Most counties want to stick with touch-screen voting

COLUMBUS -- "Less than a third of the 57 counties using touch-screen voting machines in Ohio want to switch to another system, even if financed with state and federal tax money, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said Tuesday. Brunner said more than 70 percent of the counties that responded to her survey - roughly 42 counties - do not want to replace voting systems, which were bought with more than $100 million in federal dollars after the 2004 election. More survey details were not immediately available Tuesday. 'Funding should not be the paramount issue,' Brunner said after a public hearing on her recommendation to scrap the electronic machines because of security concerns," Jon Craig, Cincinnati Enquirer.

COLUMBUS -- Leave it up to us, say election officials, Mark Niquette,Columbus Dispatch.

http://www.ohiocitizen.org/money.html