Reply #9: These people were "bad guys" a week or two ago.

[Igel]

Don't give me whiplash, please.

William Anthony is chair of the BOE and of the local Dem party organization in Franklin county. Franklin country is where Gahanna and Columbus are. I think he was also an elector for Ohio in 1996.
DUers have already accused him of all sorts of things, probably falsely; although he (or him + 3 others) had final say over the distribution of machines and reserving any for emergency use. I think he's the one that went on record saying that they could have avoided the long lines by buying new machines, but since they'd only be for this election, it wasn't reasonable.

Tim Burke is chair of the BOE and of the local Dem party organization in Hamilton county (home to Cincinnati). Weren't these punch-card counties?

The most interesting, to my mind, comment was this: "Anthony blames the legislature for part of the problems because they did not vote to authorize paper trails for Ohio's electronic voting machines until late in 2003, too late to change the machines that the counties already had purchased."

Assuming funding is sufficient, any non-paper trail counties in 2006 are the fault of the local BOEs (assuming that the specific models they want to buy are approved, and that the local BOE doesn't deadlock, throwing the decision to the state commissioner).